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" Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do. "

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" Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things. "

" I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes. "

" We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

" Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. "

" My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again. "

" My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. "

" For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.' "

Carmen Busquets

" The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles. "

" Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. "

" A man should never neglect his family for business. "

" The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. "

Walter Lippmann

" I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of 'The Interview' are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company. "

" The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. "

" My business is to prevent the future. "

" Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. "

Richard Nelson Bolles

" I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy. "

Matthew McConaughey

" I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. "

" My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss. "

Barbara Corcoran

" The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. "

" I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters. "

Galileo Galilei

" One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. "

Arnold H. Glasow

" Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. "

Richard Branson

" Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. "

W. Edwards Deming

" A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. "

" The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes. "

" I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "

Thomas Jefferson

" When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats. "