Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Taft

There are many things we must do to improve our business climate. But in the quest for prosperity, what matters most is our people.

There are many things consumers and business owners can do now and in the coming weeks to help put their financial houses back in order in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, ... The FDIC is doing what we can to try to keep this natural disaster from turning into a financial disaster for all the people harmed by Katrina.

Bob Parsons

There are no tricks to what we do, just good old-fashioned business principles.

Chester Bennington

This is a business of love and labor.

Dave Ramsey

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Frank Luntz

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

Frankie Valli

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.

Fran Tarkenton

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

Carly Fiorina

That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.

Herb Kelleher

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.

Herb Kelleher

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Hill Harper

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

Alan Kay

All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

David J. C. MacKay

I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

When we started, the business name was 'Fashion 21.' And change it to 'Forever 21' later.

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business.

Don Lemon

Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.

Don Lemon

If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

Chick Corea

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

Clayton Christensen

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

Clayton Christensen

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

Cindy Sheehan

Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life.

Hugh Laurie

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

Tim McGraw

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.

Jeff Greenfield

When Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush in 1980, it was a clear signal that he was running an inclusive campaign; that he welcomed the moderate and even liberal wings of the GOP - there was a liberal wing back then - into his campaign.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business

Muhtar Kent

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

Serge Schmemann

Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.

David Ogilvy

Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.

David Ogilvy

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.