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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

β€” Fran Lebowitz
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

β€” John Steinbeck
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The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.

β€” Mohammad bin Salman
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

β€” Warren Buffett
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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

β€” Eli Broad
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

β€” Henry Ford
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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

β€” Richard Branson
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I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

β€” Chuck Lorre
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If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

β€” Bernard Meltzer
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The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

β€” Jose Andres
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Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

β€” Chris Hadfield
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Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

β€” John Frusciante
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I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

β€” Steven Wright
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Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

β€” George Best
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My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

β€” Travis Scott
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

β€” Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.

β€” Goldie Hawn
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Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

β€” Sara Blakely
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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

β€” Dolley Madison
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It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.

β€” Claudia Gray
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

β€” Oscar De La Hoya
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

β€” Jack Welch
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

β€” Oliver Ellsworth
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

β€” Carl Icahn
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The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

β€” Meryl Streep
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I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.

β€” Iyanla Vanzant
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In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

β€” Ivana Trump
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

β€” Thomas Huxley
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The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

β€” Cynthia P. Schneider
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I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business.

β€” J Hus
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Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

β€” Betty Williams
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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

β€” Joey Adams
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People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.

β€” Kevin Durant
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The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

β€” Shonda Rhimes
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Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

β€” Terry Gou
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

β€” Walt Disney
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

β€” Winston Churchill
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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

β€” Jacqueline Cochran
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

β€” Mel Brooks
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It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

β€” Marcus Lemonis
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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

β€” Tom Peters
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Show business is my life.

β€” Lewis Grizzard
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

β€” Blaise Pascal
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

β€” Vince Lombardi
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

β€” P. T. Barnum
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The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

β€” Harvey Mackay
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Trump divides his time between working some kind of 'King Ralph' angle, and claiming that he's going to make the U.S. great again by using his business experience. We can only assume that means repeatedly declaring it bankrupt, then changing its name so he can just shake off all the debt.

β€” Frankie Boyle
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Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

β€” Elon Musk
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We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

β€” Ruth Handler
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I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.

β€” Robert Kennedy, Jr.
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