Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense… no hard feelings. – Solange Knowles
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one. – Vince Cable
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. – W. Edwards Deming
Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures. – Tadashi Shoji
Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‘Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.’ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business. – Steve Jobs
I was never really brought into the show business side of my father’s life. I guess that’s been a blessing and a downfall. But it’s made my own work the initiation. – Stephanie Zimbalist
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people. – Tony Greig
The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer. – Safra A. Catz
People are flying you places in business class. Everyone wants to take pictures of you and find out information about you. It’s a freak-out. But the more you push boundaries, the more you get ahead. – Yolandi Visser
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there’s no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business. – Sholom Aleichem
I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I’m Sam Malone the editor. I’m Sam Malone the billionaire. – Ted Danson
And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think – what’s going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way? – Stephen Breyer
Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model. – Steve Blank
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we’re doing it, is teach and learn. – Stanley Fish
I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That’s my thing. The thing I’m constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back? – Todd English
We try to say it’s creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do. – Skitch Henderson
The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads. – Terry Zwigoff
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. – Timothy Noah
That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about. – Winona Ryder
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you’ll never have a problem. That’s what I did. – Willie Mays
We’ll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it’s like, the percentages are that maybe one person’s not going to like what they get. And I can’t be there to fix it. I hate that. We’re in this business to make things that please people. – Todd English
There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup, you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. – Steve Blank
The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business. – William Clay Ford, Sr.
Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law. – Sam Graves
As and when I get into a relationship, I’ll flaunt her to the world. I’m looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I’m not very much for casual dating. I’m such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business. – Suresh Raina
Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It’s just all about business. – will.i.am
