962 private quotes tagged business

“At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.” — John Legend

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“Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.” — Michael Sheen

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“I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.” — John le Carre

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“Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.” — Marvin Hagler

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“Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.” — James Dyson

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“My business doesn't keep me warm at night.” — Bethenny Frankel

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“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.” — Wendell Phillips

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“We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.” — Jeff Bezos

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“The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.” — Dave Chappelle

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“I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.” — John Legend

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“You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.” — Charlize Theron

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“I went onto reality TV as a business decision.” — Bethenny Frankel

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“I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.” — Valentino Garavani

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“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.” — Terry Eagleton

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“Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.” — Ron Wyden

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“The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.” — Ron Wyden

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“As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.” — Ron Wyden

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“I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.” — Liev Schreiber

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“Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.” — Arthur C. Nielsen

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“I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.” — Alan Greenspan

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“It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.” — Donny Osmond

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“McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.” — Dave Eggers

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“It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.” — Harold S. Geneen

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“The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.” — Harold S. Geneen

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“Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.” — Karl Rove

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