But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
Donald Trump

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

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Katharine Hepburn

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
Tiger Woods

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
Richard M. Nixon

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett

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

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
Jimmy Buffett

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
Robert Mondavi

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore De Balzac

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

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.
Carter G. Woodson