Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Klein

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Zig Ziglar

If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

Gerry Harvey

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.

Gerry Harvey

There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.

No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.

Christopher Lee

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.

Christina Aguilera

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.

I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

Otis Redding

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Owen D. Young

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Edward Lampert

Trying to move the volume of products we're talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer's hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business is incredibly complex. But if you get it right, it's a beautiful thing.

Evan Williams

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Eliza Coupe

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

Elle Varner

I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.

Edward Burns

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

Elmore Leonard

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.

FKA twigs

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

Adam Green

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

Jack Ma

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

Gary Johnson

I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

Gary Hamel

You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

Gary Johnson

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

Glenn Turner

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

Ginni Rometty

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

Gareth Gates

I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

Greg Berlanti

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.