Business Quotes

The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go...

Aaron Schock

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Aaron Sorkin

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Aaron Sorkin

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Alan Shepard

I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer.

Alan Siegel

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

Alan Sugar

If you're nasty to me in my place of business, I'm going to be really nasty back.

Alexis Stewart

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

Allan Sloan

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.

Al Smith

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

Amity Shlaes

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin

My training really was at the 'New York Times,' you know. When I got there, I was literally supposed to stay there for five weeks, and I got lucky like nobody, you know, like nobody's business.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Anna Sewell

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Anna Sui

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

Anna Sui

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

Anna Sui

Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am bui...

Anushka Sharma

We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.

Ashwin Sanghi