3 December 2020 Donald Trump I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.
3 December 2020 Julia Child Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you’re in a crowd, you’ll always have some clean air to breathe.
3 December 2020 Wentworth Miller There has to be a measure of faith. That’s what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
3 December 2020 Elton John The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you’re able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
3 December 2020 Danica McKellar Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that’s going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it’s serious. It’s serious business.
3 December 2020 Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
3 December 2020 Ted Turner My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
3 December 2020 Raymond Chandler The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They’ll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
3 December 2020 Tim Berners-Lee Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it’s been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
3 December 2020 Jacqueline Bisset This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It’s not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It’s not an intellectual cinema in America.
3 December 2020 Gore Vidal Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf Well, there’s different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I’m working in this business but I’m not Hollywood.
3 December 2020 James Sinegal You just can’t get too focused on worrying about what’s going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
3 December 2020 Andrew Mason Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That’s not a criticism they’re passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that’s why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.
3 December 2020 George Lucas I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
3 December 2020 Elisabeth Rohm The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you’re not working, you’re not interesting.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business – men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it’s going to cost us and cost us a lot.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply – the lower the price. The higher the demand – the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
3 December 2020 Ginnifer Goodwin Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we’re open for business.
