Quotes about Business

“It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.”

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

“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.”

“I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.”

“To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.”

“I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.”

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”

“The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.”

“Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.”

“There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.”

“What other people think of me isn't any of my business but it's nice when people say nice things.”

“A manager doesn't hear the cheers.”

“I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.”

“Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.”

“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?”

“Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.”

“I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.”

“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”

“When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.”

“The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.”

“I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.”