Business Quotes

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Taylor Swift

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Tupac Shakur

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

Marco Rubio

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Chris Christie

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.

Nicki Minaj

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Maurice Sendak

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

Jimmy Smits

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

Megan Fox

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

William Shatner

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

David Byrne

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

Harold S. Geneen

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

Thomas Frank

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

An Wang

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

Jeffrey Kluger

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Muhammad Yunus

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Jim Carrey

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Joseph Schumpeter

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Jack Welch

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Mitt Romney