2,171 quotes
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.
Michael Medved
Journalist · American · b. 1948
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo Burnett
Businessman · American · 1891 – 1971
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Thorstein Veblen
Economist · American · 1857 – 1929
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert Parker
Politician · British · 1862 – 1932
Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.
Jon Porter
Politician · American · b. 1955
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.
Jane Byrne
Politician · American · b. 1934
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
Rutherford B. Hayes
President · American · 1822 – 1893
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
Writer
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
Martin Bashir
Journalist · British · b. 1963
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
John Searle
Philosopher · American · b. 1932
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken
Environmentalist
Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Politician · American · b. 1935
In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.
Peter Schuyler
Politician · English · 1657 – 1724
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
Ed Gillespie
Politician · American · b. 1962
Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
Ben Hecht
Writer · American · 1894 – 1964
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Margaret Thatcher
Leader · English · b. 1925
I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.
Charles M. Schwab
Businessman · American · 1862 – 1939
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Ugo Betti
Playwright · Italian · 1892 – 1953
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor · American · 1847 – 1931
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes
Journalist · Scottish · 1880 – 1954
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot
Poet · American · 1888 – 1965
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Scientist · French · 1805 – 1859
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
Benjamin Cohen
Journalist · English · b. 1982
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
Businessman · American · b. 1924
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
Robert Reich
Economist · American · b. 1946
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
Poet · English · 1670 – 1729
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
Milan Kundera
Writer · Czechoslovakian · b. 1929
There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.
John Romero
Inventor · American · b. 1967
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Jesse Ventura
Politician · American · b. 1952
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
Norman Mailer
Novelist · American · 1923 – 2007
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
Tom Brokaw
Journalist · American · b. 1940
There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Diplomat · American · 1930 – 2011
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes
Publisher · American · 1917 – 1990
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Writer · English · 1737 – 1809
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
Fredrik Bajer
Writer · Danish · 1837 – 1922
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
John Jay Chapman
Poet · American · b. 1862
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.
Meg Whitman
Businessman · American · b. 1956
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
Chris Chocola
I believe we're the party of small business.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer · French · 1613 – 1680
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
Businessman · American · b. 1955
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Leader · American · 1902 – 1994
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
Tom Allen
Politician · American · b. 1945
Politics is a people business. I like people.
Laura Bush
First Lady · American · b. 1946
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Ulrich Beck
Sociologist · German · b. 1944
Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.
Christie Hefner
Businessman · American · b. 1952
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
Yahoo Serious
Director · Australian · b. 1953