Business Quotes - page 5

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. (J. M. W. Turner)
You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed. That has nothing to do with the business of the State. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. View quote
Michael Moore
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn`t be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don`t regret it. View quote
Kim Wilde
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. View quote
Herbert Simon
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. View quote
Epictetus
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Science has taught... me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. (George Bernard Shaw)
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes. View quote
Richard Branson
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. View quote
Richard Branson
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. View quote
Richard Branson
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. View quote
Morrissey
Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done. View quote
Robert Gates
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. View quote
David Letterman
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. View quote
Willa Cather
Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one. View quote
Octavia Butler
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. (Indra Nooyi)
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. View quote
Van Morrison
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past. View quote
Bud Selig
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. View quote
John Searle
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way. View quote
Jesse Ventura