962 private quotes tagged business

“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.” — Romain Rolland

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“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.” — Dolly Parton

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“I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.” — Kim Kardashian

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“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.” — Thomas Sowell

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“In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.” — Horatio Nelson

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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” — Benjamin Jowett

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“I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.” — Michelle Obama

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“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” — Tom Robbins

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“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.” — Justin Bieber

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“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.” — Taylor Swift

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“Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.” — J. Paul Getty

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“When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.” — Sydney Pollack

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“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.” — William Congreve

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“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!” — Robin Williams

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“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” — Ezra Pound

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“I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.” — Joan Rivers

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“The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.” — Doug Coupland

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“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.” — Rupert Murdoch

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