Work Quotes

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

Ben Stein

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.

Christie Brinkley

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

Christian Cooke

Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

Cindy Crawford

There are companies trying to build business within Saudi Arabia, and what they find is that if they try to bring on locals and teach them how to become senior executives, they just don't show up to work. They are not predictable as to when they'll c...

Clayton Christensen

When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father,...

Charles Duhigg

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Carly Fiorina

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.

Chris Gabrieli

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

Chen Guangbiao

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

Calvin Klein

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the prod...

Carl Lewis

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

Christian Louboutin

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

Chloe Grace Moretz

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and the...

Campbell Newman

I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it...

Carine Roitfeld

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

Chris Robinson

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart an...

Conrad Veidt

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

David Arquette

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

Demian Bichir

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

Daniel Craig

Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honor...

David Chang