Business Quotes
“I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.”
-- Alan Alda
“Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.”
-- Venus Williams
“The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.”
-- Ron Wyden
“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.”
-- Gore Vidal
“I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.”
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
-- H. P. Lovecraft
“I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.”
-- Cameron Diaz
“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?”
-- Glenn Beck
“My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.”
-- Harry Houdini
“By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.”
-- Lawrence Welk
“It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.”
-- Emily Procter
“You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.”
-- Charlize Theron
“Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.”
-- Jeff Bridges
“There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.”
-- Michael Bloomberg
“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”
-- Jeff Bezos