Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Benn

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

Tom Colicchio

I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.

Tom Brokaw

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

Theo James

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

Tom Reed

When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations.

Trip Adler

The reason we make money is because we have a few different business models. One is ads: we get incredibly high click rates because most people on Scribd are searching the site for something, or they came from a search engine, and they're looking for something specific.

Tom Smothers

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

Tony Fernandes

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

Caroline Dhavernas

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

Stephen Covey

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Victor LaValle

The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.

Vic Mignogna

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.

Tim O'Reilly

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

Timothy Geithner

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

Al Madrigal

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

Adam Michnik

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

Alex Steffen

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

David Hare

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

David Chang

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef.

David Blunkett

Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff's flexibility, responsiveness and skills.

Ban Ki-moon

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

Ban Ki-moon

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

Mitt Romney

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Kurt Vonnegut

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Ashleigh Banfield

If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to a level in this business where people would actually listen to me, then I think I have a duty to convey all truths that I encounter.

When a strike prevents them from serving you, they will generally waive the various restrictive rules. There's no law that says they have to, but that's a general business practice.

We have lots of opportunities, product launches are going super well, restructuring is delivering, market share trends in lots of businesses look good. Things look good.

We have lots and lots of fun things in store. If we can eliminate the business privilege tax it will be a big impact, then we can look at all those other reforms.

William Julius Wilson

Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.'

will.i.am

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.