3 December 2020 Rocco DiSpirito You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
3 December 2020 Stephen Covey Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
3 December 2020 William Feather A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.
3 December 2020 Neil Young Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They’re very annoying.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
3 December 2020 Herbert Simon Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.
3 December 2020 Britney Spears I still have a lot to learn – about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
3 December 2020 Mario Andretti What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
3 December 2020 Stephen Covey A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
3 December 2020 Charles W. Eliot All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
3 December 2020 Christopher Walken I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn’t have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn’t want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
3 December 2020 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. I’ve set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
3 December 2020 Dave Chappelle I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I’ll walk away from show business. But I don’t want to walk away empty-handed.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies.
3 December 2020 Jack Welch Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
3 December 2020 Brett Favre In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it’s all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera It’s been a joy to be a part of other people’s journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
3 December 2020 Harvey S. Firestone Our company is built on people – those who work for us, and those we do business with.
3 December 2020 Anita Brookner Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.
3 December 2020 Calvin Klein I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
3 December 2020 Amber Tamblyn A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
