Business Quotes

I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal.

Jaleel White

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

James Woods

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.

James Woods

Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.

James Woods

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

Jann Wenner

A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion busi...

Jason Wu

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican...

J. C. Watts

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instin...

Jerry Jeff Walker

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

Jerry Jeff Walker

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Jessamyn West

I am a woman who, you know, I run my own business. I don't need a man financially, for anything, but just to be a companion.

Jessica White

You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.

Jessica Williams

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. ...

Jewel

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Jim Walton

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

Jody Watley

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

Johnny Weissmuller

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

John Sergeant Wise

First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's hi...

John S. Watson