Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're trying to get the message out to people outside of Washington that we have these big challenges in front of us. We definitely want to target the business community. They need to step up to the plate here.

Alan Sugar

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

Emraan Hashmi

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.

John Madden

Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck!

Binod Chaudhary

Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved.

Bill Lawrence

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.

Buzz Osborne

Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.

When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.

Brian McKnight

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

Blake Mycoskie

I never thought I would be in a position like this, where my words and experiences are now inspiring others to follow suit. It's challenging at times, but I can only look forward to the future of business and philanthropy.

Bjorn Lomborg

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

Cyriac Roeding

The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.

Cynthia Weil

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Colonel Sanders

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

E. W. Howe

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

E. W. Howe

A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

E. W. Howe

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

We use a business talk. (We) huddled up (the) employees and shared (the) information (and the) facts of what happened today.

We understand this segment of our business has changed dramatically, and we don't intend to stand still.

We understand the emotions. Field's is a great name and a great tradition and it was a hard decision for us to make. But the truth is, Field's business has not been good and we think we have a chance to revitalize those stores as Macy's.

We understand that this is a business issue, a commercial issue and a very personal issue. We hope that people can look at all sides of this issue.

We should not be subsidizing businesses with your tax dollars, and then they turn around and give us Medicaid patients.

Ray Allen

We shot ourselves in the foot. I thought we were so close to busting open, but we gave it away.

Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

Wal-Mart does nothing on a small scale. We respectfully suggest that Wal-Mart?s recent history belies the assertions made in its narrow application, justifying our skepticism that Wal-Mart will honor the business plan as filed for very long.

James Cameron

Wall Street is waking up to climate change risks and opportunities. Considerably more of the world's largest corporations are getting a handle on what climate change means for their business and what they need to do to capture opportunities and mitigate risks. This all points to a continued elevation of climate change as a critical shareholder value issue for investors.

Wall Street has lost business to fee-based advisers in the last several years.

Walking out into the bush still feels the same as when I first came to Kenya in 1989, on the day the Berlin Wall came down.

Steve Martin

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

Steve Jobs

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.