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

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family friends co-workers business associates and others.

Business is war. I go out there I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

In business words are words explanations are explanations promises are promises but only performance is reality.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words explanations are explanations promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

When I started the business I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

If you break 100 watch your golf. If you break 80 watch your business.

Interior design is a business of trust.

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.

There's no business like show business but there are several businesses like accounting.

Don't solicit feedback on your product idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward but if you're just looking to your friend co-worker husband or wife for validation be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

Music and the music business are two different things.

Man I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Half the time men think they are talking business they are wasting time.

The whole business is built on ego vanity self-satisfaction and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

My approach to cutting spending as president is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury Burger King Godfather's the National Restaurant Association in each one of those situations I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and more importantly solve the problem in every one of the situations.