962 private quotes tagged business

“Interior design is a business of trust.”— Venus Williams

“Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.”— Madeleine Albright

“As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.”— Simon Mainwaring

“I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.”— Kathy Ireland

“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.”— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.”— Kate Beckinsale

“There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.”— Rush Limbaugh

“In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.”— Simon Mainwaring

“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”— Shaquille O'Neal

“In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.”— Madonna Ciccone

“Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.”— Richard Nelson Bolles

“I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.”— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

“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

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”— Aristotle Onassis

“As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.”— Rocco DiSpirito

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

“If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.”— Barbara Corcoran

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

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

“There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.”— Dee Dee Myers

“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

“You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.”— Dolly Parton

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

“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”— Robert H. Schuller