“Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.”

“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.”

“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”

“Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.”

“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”

“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.”

“I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.”

“There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'”

“Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.”

“A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'”

“As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.”

“I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.”

“American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.”

“The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.”

“It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.”

“Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.”

“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”

“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.”

“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.”