Business Quotes
“I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.”
“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
-- Robert Browning
“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”
-- A. C. Benson
“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”
-- Julia Roberts
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
-- Ambrose Bierce
“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”
-- Shaquille O'Neal