Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taraji P. Henson

With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.

Tony Hale

It's always a surprise! This business is always an adventure.

Tom Petty

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.

Tom Rath

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

Tom Hodgkinson

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

Ted Cruz

I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Ted Cruz

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

Tom Benson

I'm 85 years old. I've been in business since I was a teenager, practically; I was in grade school, and I even had a paper route. I always had a job so I could have money to spend on girls.

The outlook for our business looks good going into the fourth quarter.

The outcome we're after is Pennsylvania mining families know that when their loved ones go into this tough, dangerous business that at least their maps are dependable,

What we'd like to hear from Cisco is that visibility going into the next quarter is better but we probably won't get that because there still isn't much clarity about business spending.

Brian Cox

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

Brent Weeks

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

Boris Johnson

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Booker T. Washington

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Bobby Vinton

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Billy Corgan

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

Bode Miller

I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive.

Brendon Burchard

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Brian Tracy

I've found that luck is quite predictable.

Brian Tracy

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Brian Tracy

Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.

Brian Tracy

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

Brian Tracy

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

Brad Pitt

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

Jane Jacobs

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jamie Dimon

Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Kirk Acevedo

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

Ken Mehlman

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.