Deductible Business Quotes

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. ~ Andy Warhol

Boomers were the original Millennials. ~ Ted Rubin

Wishing can be dangerous business. And dreaming only makes reality harder to accept. ~ Lara Adrian

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. ~ Eduardo Galeano

An unhappy marriage is neither your business nor your concern. ~ Anthony Riches

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they're in the kitchen cooking. So it's understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it. ~ Kevin Hart

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term. ~ James Sinegal

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!' ~ Teddy Sears

No matter how much we tweet, blog and post, nothing in business is as powerful as actual face time with prospective business partners and customers. ~ Jay Samit

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services. ~ Brian Tracy

As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up. ~ Paul Gibbons

Intuition works closely alongside fate, like they're business partners working together to alter the course of your life. ~ Katie Kacvinsky

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone. ~ Dolly Parton

Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business. ~ Kevin Flynn

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business. ~ Christian Lacroix

I had retail businesses. They were beauty businesses, skin care and all that. I got into that as a fluke. I was going to open up a gym. I just had a Men's Fitness cover come out that was the third bestselling of Men's Fitness covers. ~ Drew Waters

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business. ~ Rupert Murdoch

I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to. ~ Yves Behar

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut. ~ Alexander McQueen

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever. ~ Bennett Miller

I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor. ~ Bernie Siegel

I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it. ~ M.J. Rose

Believing business is easy boosts your self-confidence. ~ Ehab Atalla

Maybe you can't change the world, but you can change your world. ~ Milad Ghane

I've always preferred moths to butterflies. They aren't flashy or cocky; they mind their own business and just try to blend in with their surroundings and live their lives. They don't want to be seen, and that's something I can relate to. ~ Kayla Krantz

Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided. ~ Carol Roth

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it. ~ Isabel Allende

Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick walls, bombard atoms, analyse the stars, set about his business with the strength of a million horses. And so forth and so on. Yes. Yes. But all the same he goes on behaving like the weak little needy ape he used to be. He grabs, snarls, quarrels, fears, stampedes, and plays in his immense powder magazine until he seems likely to blow up the whole damned show. ~ H.G.Wells

One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business. ~ Michael Moore

But if you cannot at once laugh at a thing or believe in it, you have no business in the Middle Ages. Or in the world for that matter. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Think like a publisher, not a marketer. ~ David Meerman Scott

Data Scientists should refuse to be defined by someone else's vision of what's possible. ~ Damian Mingle