A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

War is the business of barbarians.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

My business is to prevent the future.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.