Young lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business.

In this business until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

Come come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business as it were and I use almost pure turpentine to start with adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help and that's my method.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

To keep the record straight it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

To succeed in business to reach the top an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

No there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

Most executives many scientists and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful you first have to have the courage to go for it.

People who have tried it tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well and is cheaper and more easily obtained.