Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business. Leo Burnett
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation. Paul Ryan
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. Paul Ryan
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. Thomas J. Watson
I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. Mick Jagger
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now. Taylor Swift
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. Herbert Simon
Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. Jeff Bridges
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. Gertrude Stein
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. Hedy Lamarr
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. Jack Welch
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. Marco Rubio
When you're eight years old nothing is your business. Lenny Bruce
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. Erykah Badu
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that? Mick Jagger
I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson. Chris Rock
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. Roy L. Smith
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. Woodrow Wilson