962 private quotes tagged business

“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?” — Mick Jagger

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“So little done, so much to do.” — Cecil Rhodes

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“No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.” — Florence Scovel Shinn

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“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.” — Richard Nelson Bolles

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“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.” — Gertrude Stein

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“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis

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“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.” — John Ruskin

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“There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.” — Mick Jagger

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“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.” — Romain Rolland

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“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.” — Thomas Sowell

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“In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” — Benjamin Jowett

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“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” — Roy L. Smith

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“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.” — Megan Fox

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“Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.” — Jeff Bridges

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“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” — Tom Robbins

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“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.” — William Congreve

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“Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?” — Sydney Madwed

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“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.” — Rupert Murdoch

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“You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.” — Dolly Parton

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