I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five thirty years earlier I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Christ would be a national advertiser today I am sure as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring market-friendly innovations.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf I can.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business I would have said 'No way.'

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on whereas now you can major in it at business school.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is we are building it so far with no debt.

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax 9% personal flat tax 9% sales tax.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician with great business flair and marketing ability.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible at least on the scale it occurred.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

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.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Patience is the most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Without the element of uncertainty the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be dull routine and eminently unsatisfying.

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

No there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

When I was in college I was debating to try my hand at show business or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.