Business Quotes
“Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.”
-- Warren Buffett
“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
-- Jerome K. Jerome
“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.”
-- David Lynch
“Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.”
-- William Shatner
“The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.”
-- Simon Mainwaring
“And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.”
-- Alphonso Jackson
“Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.”
-- Peter Singer
“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”
-- Robert Browning
“At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.”
-- John Legend
“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.”
-- Henry Ford
“It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.”
-- Hulk Hogan
“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”
-- Elbert Hubbard
“I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.”
-- Sara Blakely
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”
-- Thurgood Marshall
“My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.”
-- Herman Cain