Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're in constant change, but the plan is to invest and grow the business -- he sees a lot of potential.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're in a war. We've got serious business to be doing,

We?re in a good region with a lot of vitality and small business growth.

Ali LeRoi

We started looking for someone in L.A., and what we found was that we were encountering the usual suspects. They're Hollywood kids who have been in the business for a few years. We were looking for someone who was a little raw and a little edgier. And we got a tape from New York with this kid on it. The thing that sold us was his face. He has an incredibly expressive face, and it's older than his years. When you sit and you look at him, it already feels like he's carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. He looks like his eyes are a little sad, but he's really bright. At this particular point, there's no Hollywood in him.

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.

William Shakespeare

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that's just making another artist, my clothing line - capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that - capitalizing off every move I make.

Lou Reed

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

Loretta Lynn

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

Liza Minnelli

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

Leos Carax

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

Li Bingbing

It is difficult to understand why I am so famous. I never thought I wanted to be an actress. I never thought about it. I think it is my destiny to be in this business.

Mark Burnett

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Nick Woodman

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.

Nick Woodman

Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.

Nicki Minaj

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

When you strip out those acquisitions and new partnerships to really get a sense of what the company's core business is doing, it really struggled through the first half of the year.

Henry Zebrowski

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.

I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be the CEO of a large public company but realize that it's not exactly what they had anticipated, for lots of reasons. One is competition has gotten a lot worse, and more global.

We need to make sure that we have one another's back and recognize the fact that patriots come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, not all of them wear uniforms, some of them are employers, some of them are the family members who stay at home and take of business back here in the state of Oklahoma.

Mark Cuban

I just started a business called HDNet. There never is one area that has a door open to everyone. Try to find an area with something you love to do and do it. It's a lot easier to work hard and prepare when you love what you are doing.

Mark Cuban

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

Mark Cuban

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Mark Cuban

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Mark Cuban

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

Mark Cuban

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Charles William Eliot

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Charles Koch

In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.