Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everyone's for free markets except when it affects your own business.

Bernard Arnault

I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Ben Horowitz

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

Ben Bernanke

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

Rose Kennedy

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

Robert Kiyosaki

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.

Bill Ackman

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

Bill Paxton

It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.

Bart Starr

During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

Steve Sheinkin

It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid's perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take.

I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me.

Steve Jones

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

Steve Alford

I don't know anything about the hotel business.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

Helena Bonham Carter

A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.

Jean Reno

If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.

Gabriel Byrne

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Gregg Allman

When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.

Gilbert Murray

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Geraldine Ferraro

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

Gerald Chertavian

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.

Gayle Forman

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.

Gabourey Sidibe

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion.

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.

Georgia Holt

People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create.

Imogen Poots

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'