Business Quotes

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Plato

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

George Washington

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill

Movies are an expensive business.

Albert Brooks

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

J. Paul Getty

There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.

Simon Mainwaring

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

Danica McKellar

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Pablo Picasso

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

Rupert Murdoch

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Tom Hanks

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Erykah Badu

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

Rodney Dangerfield

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

Ric Flair

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

Rod Stewart

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

Rick Perry

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Robert Townsend

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Robert Townsend

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Robert Townsend