Famous Quotes & Sayings

The decline in business confidence seen over past months has been arrested.

Jim Hall

The demand for these graduates is phenomenal. Management is really scrambling for people who know business and technology.

A. C. Benson

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Jean Giraudoux

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

Jake Owen

There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their show is great, they're very fit. When you look at somebody who takes care of themselves, takes care of their business, that's what every CEO would do.

Adam Smith

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Adam Leipzig

Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.

Abraham Maslow

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Abraham Lincoln

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

We're excited to have them locate here, ... It's good for the community and the mall. Hopefully it will draw others to locate there. Businesses feed on each other. It should create a higher volume of traffic.

Western businesses have battened down the hatches -- I don't think their lives are going to be very easy.

Westchester County is a very important part of our market. But our caravan is not traditional in the sense it is with other teams that travel by bus to other areas.

We stay very busy in the summer and fall. We're trying to promote ourselves as a wedding site, which should help us out in the spring -- but in the winter, most of our business comes from funerals.

We've been working on this quite awhile. I feel like our business plan is strong.

We've been working hard to get on the city's good side. We have our state business license, our taxes done, the vendor registration is done and the insurance is covered.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

Willie Robertson

We've been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to 'your dad.' Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, 'Well, my daddy said,' we would refer to him as 'Phil.'

I'm not an Internet guy - I'm a business guy.

Wes Bentley

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

Wayne Huizenga

If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

Wayne Huizenga

I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

Wilbur Ross

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

Will Packer

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

W. G. Sebald

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

W. Averell Harriman

I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.

I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

Allyson Schwartz

I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure that can make people and products. You need to cultivate an environment that they can imagine living in and being in, having employees be in. And a fair tax structure. And a responsive government.

Anita Roddick

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.