Business Quotes

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Once you learn from your mistakes and you tighten up your hustle and you know your business, you get rich. That's basically true with anything.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.