Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Forman

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.

Gabourey Sidibe

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion.

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.

Georgia Holt

People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create.

Imogen Poots

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

Calvin Klein

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Zig Ziglar

If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

Gerry Harvey

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.

Gerry Harvey

There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.

Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.

No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.

Christopher Lee

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.

Christina Aguilera

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.

I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

Otis Redding

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

Owen D. Young

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Edward Lampert

Trying to move the volume of products we're talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer's hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business is incredibly complex. But if you get it right, it's a beautiful thing.

Evan Williams

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Eliza Coupe

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.