Business Quotes
“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.”
“In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.”
-- John Legend
“I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.”
-- Mitt Romney
“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.”
-- Alexander McQueen
“We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.”
-- Jeff Bezos
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
-- Walter Scott
“Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.”
-- Dan Rather
“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”
-- Andy Warhol
“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”
-- Mick Jagger
“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”
-- Jason Aldean