Business Quotes
“I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.”
-- Katherine Jenkins
“You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.”
-- Alan Alda
“Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.”
-- Helena Bonham Carter
“Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'”
-- Andy Cohen
“I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.”
-- Calvin Klein
“Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.”
-- Ted Turner
“There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.”
-- Maureen O'Hara
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
-- John D. Rockefeller
“When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.”
-- Vera Wang
“Business is not just doing deals business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.”
-- Ross Perot
“I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.”
-- Caroline Wozniacki
“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.”
-- Francis Bacon
“I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.”
-- Britney Spears
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
-- Henry Ford
“It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.”
-- Barack Obama