Business Quotes

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Warren Spahn

Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression a...

Warren Stephens

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Wesley Snipes

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

W. G. Sebald

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

William Shatner

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Wietse Venema

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Wayne White

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

William Weld

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatigui...

William Whipple

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

William Wilberforce

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

William Wycherley

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

Warren Zevon

Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.

Xavier Niel

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Xavier Niel

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and ...

Yolanda Adams