Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Taft

There are many things we must do to improve our business climate. But in the quest for prosperity, what matters most is our people.

There are many things consumers and business owners can do now and in the coming weeks to help put their financial houses back in order in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, ... The FDIC is doing what we can to try to keep this natural disaster from turning into a financial disaster for all the people harmed by Katrina.

Bob Parsons

There are no tricks to what we do, just good old-fashioned business principles.

Chester Bennington

This is a business of love and labor.

Dave Ramsey

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Frank Luntz

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

Frankie Valli

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.

Fran Tarkenton

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

Carly Fiorina

That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.

Herb Kelleher

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.

Herb Kelleher

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Hill Harper

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

Howie Mandel

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.

Alan Kay

All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

David J. C. MacKay

I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

Derek Jeter

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

Diane von Furstenberg

I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.

Doug Jones

I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

Everyone's for free markets except when it affects your own business.

Bernard Arnault

I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Ben Horowitz

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

Ben Bernanke

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

Rose Kennedy

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

Robert Kiyosaki

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.

Bill Ackman

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

Bill Paxton

It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.

Bart Starr

During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.

Ansel Elgort

My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.

Anurag Kashyap

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.