Negro banks as a rule have failed because the people taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere withdrew their deposits.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson not Jesse Jackson.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had but how boring is that?

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

A strategy is something like an innovative new product globalization taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

It is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Unlike a lot of actors my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.

When two men in business always agree one of them is unnecessary.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.