There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
Billie Holiday

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

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

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

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
Calvin Klein

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
Christina Aguilera

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

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
George Will

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
Ray Kroc

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
Ray Kroc

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
Jeff Bezos

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.
Julius Erving

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
Alvin Ailey

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

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
Chevy Chase

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph Addison

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
Steven Morrissey