962 private quotes tagged business

“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.” — Will Rogers

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“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.” — Harvey S. Firestone

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“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” — Albert Einstein

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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.” — Tom Brokaw

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“Carpe per diem - seize the check.” — Robin Williams

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“A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.” — Bobby Darin

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“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.” — Edgar R. Fiedler

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“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“The career stuff is for business people.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.” — Rose Kennedy

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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” — Edward Gibbon

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“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.” — John Cleese

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“Business is a combination of war and sport.” — Andre Maurois

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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Music and the music business are two different things.” — Erykah Badu

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“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” — Scott Adams

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“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.” — David Ogilvy

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“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.” — Scott Adams

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“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” — Colin Powell

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“I buy when other people are selling.” — J. Paul Getty

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