No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

Most executives many scientists and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful you first have to have the courage to go for it.

People who have tried it tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well and is cheaper and more easily obtained.

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'.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

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

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

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.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

I started out mopping floors waiting tables and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation I put my name forward and ran for office.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.