Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dick Cheney

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

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,

We didn't do a huge junior business. We have business shoppers at the lunch-crunch period.

Banksy

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Lindsey Shaw

You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

Linda McMahon

I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.

Linden Ashby

I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.

Laurence D. Fink

What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.