Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kat Edmonson

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

John Sculley

The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

James Garner

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.

Lauren Holly

I started in this business on soap operas.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

Kathy Ireland

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Kelis

I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.

Kelis

After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

Jane McGonigal

In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.

Jane Green

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

Chris Chelios

We had no business giving (Columbus) any life ... it cost us a point. Great teams find a way to keep leads and win especially at this point in the season.

We had no business even being in the games with Cal State Fullerton or San Diego State. Our kids just did a great job of competing, fighting and not quitting under tough circumstances.

We had no business being there. We couldn't shoot it, we couldn't score.

We had no business being in the golf course business. We are all developers in our previous occupations.

We are confident of delivering further growth from our business in 2006.

We are concerned that rents are getting too high for the small business to survive. We hope the landlords recognize that and will lower them. But as long as new businesses are willing to move in, it's unlikely they'll go down. The free market decides what businesses come and go.

Terry McAuliffe

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

Alan Cohen

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

When we put a business on a notice, we are alerting the licenser that the license will be revoked unless corrected or appealed, if they want to stop the process,

When you're orchestrating lots of Web services together to form a complex business process, management is popping up as a pretty key item.

Al Smith

Where are the (condo residents) going to eat or shop? The (business) opportunity is there. What happens now is up to us.

Nolan Bushnell

The game business reinvents itself every five years.

It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Nadine Velazquez

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.

Naguib Sawiris

Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

As for indie writers, a lot of them don't realize that they're in the hurry-up-and-wait business, not the wait-and-hurry-up business. They work really, really, really hard at goosing the first-month sales, and then getting disappointed when those sales either go down or never happen in the first place.

Lucy Walker

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

Lucy Liu

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

Mo Ibrahim

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

Mickey Rooney

Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a business that we love.