Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leah Busque

As a small business or startup, one of the factors you should always consider when looking at a potential partnership is the incremental potential reach. Note that wider reach doesn't always mean a better partnership opportunity. Instead of sheer scale, take a look at which communities your potential partner can open up for you.

Leah Busque

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

Jay Wright

We did try to keep them busy this week, but everyone wanted to play. It felt like we were at the Super Bowl; it took forever to play this game. Traveling usually mixes it up a little but we're at home.

Iris Apfel

I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

Ira Glass

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

Sienna Miller

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.

There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

Niecy Nash

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

Nik Kershaw

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I think I have something to offer and to contribute. In no way will I put myself in a position of undoing what's taken 20 years to build.

Lee Trevino

I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'

I'm confident UTC could outperform in all of our markets, starting with our commercial businesses. The largest opportunities for our commercial businesses are in emerging markets, and we're very well positioned there.

Lou Diamond Phillips

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

Lori Greiner

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.

Lisa Murkowski

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Loudon Wainwright III

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

Nick Hanauer

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

Neil Cross

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

Neal Schon

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Whaling was the oil business of its day.

Lesley Visser

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

Lindy Booth

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, 'I'm an actor.'

Lisa Unger

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Linwood Barclay

We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.

Dick Cheney

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

We don't have a lot of flexibility, ... We have to run our bus routes. We can't change our school schedule.

Gary Johnson

We are greatly saddened by the news that such a terrible tragedy has befallen this bus full of children, ... Our sympathies go out to the victims and their families.

Tom Johnson

We are grateful for Lou's leadership over the years and for his nearly two decades of groundbreaking reporting and anchoring in the field of business news,