Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitt Romney

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Kurt Vonnegut

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Ashleigh Banfield

If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to a level in this business where people would actually listen to me, then I think I have a duty to convey all truths that I encounter.

When a strike prevents them from serving you, they will generally waive the various restrictive rules. There's no law that says they have to, but that's a general business practice.

We have lots of opportunities, product launches are going super well, restructuring is delivering, market share trends in lots of businesses look good. Things look good.

We have lots and lots of fun things in store. If we can eliminate the business privilege tax it will be a big impact, then we can look at all those other reforms.

William Julius Wilson

Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.'

will.i.am

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

Zubin Mehta

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

Vincent Tan

Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.

Vincent Tan

Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things.

Vivica A. Fox

For me, I usually play the kick -butt, strong business type.

Vivek Wadhwa

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

Wiz Khalifa

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

Iris Apfel

I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

Ira Glass

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

Sienna Miller

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.

There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

Niecy Nash

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

Nik Kershaw

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I think I have something to offer and to contribute. In no way will I put myself in a position of undoing what's taken 20 years to build.

Lee Trevino

I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'

Lou Diamond Phillips

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

Lori Greiner

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.

In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Whaling was the oil business of its day.

Lindy Booth

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, 'I'm an actor.'

Lisa Unger

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Banksy

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Linda McMahon

I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.