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Some Business Quotes

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.
- Maria Bartiromo

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

it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.
- William Shakespeare

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thinga warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
- George Bernard Shaw

The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of money for me and made my reputation, such as it is. One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.
- Greg Ginn

It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'Its a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business ofice, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer.
- J D Salinger

You're a bitch."
"Yeah, I'm thinking of having that put on some business cards.
- Rachel Vincent

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
- Eberhard Weber

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