Quotes about Business First

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first. Votes: 4

You have to work on the business first before it works for you. Votes: 3

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first. Votes: 3

I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important. Votes: 3

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing. Votes: 3

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself. Votes: 3

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first. Votes: 3

I started my first business at 14! Votes: 2

Baking is my business, and it will always come first. Votes: 2

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. Votes: 2

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. Votes: 2

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions. Votes: 2

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. Votes: 2

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21. Votes: 2

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them. Votes: 2

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business. Votes: 2

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money. Votes: 2

In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. Votes: 2

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing. Votes: 2

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce. Votes: 2

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel. Votes: 2

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. Votes: 2

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother. Votes: 2

There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking. Votes: 2

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. Votes: 2

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid. Votes: 2

Business first, then pleasure. Votes: 0

Business first; pleasure afterwards. Votes: 0

The first rule of business is FUN Votes: 0

The first business asset you should invest in is yourself. Votes: 0

First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun. Votes: 0

A sucker has no business with money in the first place. Votes: 0

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought. Votes: 0

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different. Votes: 0

What business would judged on the first week that it's in business? Votes: 0

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business. Votes: 0

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success. Votes: 0

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business. Votes: 0

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology. Votes: 0

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.' Votes: 0

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you Votes: 0

The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want. Votes: 0

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way Votes: 0

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. Votes: 0

[First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. Votes: 0

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure. Votes: 0

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is. Votes: 0

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. Votes: 0

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real. Votes: 0

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last. Votes: 0

Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be. Votes: 0

In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people. Votes: 0

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back. Votes: 0

I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him. Votes: 0

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them. Votes: 0

First make your business itself a brand and then every product you create will be accepted as a brand. Votes: 0

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic. Votes: 0

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first. Votes: 0

The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do. Votes: 0

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. Votes: 0

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. Votes: 0

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it. Votes: 0

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening. Votes: 0

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. Votes: 0

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?" Votes: 0

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. Votes: 0

It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business. Votes: 0

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. Votes: 0

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved. Votes: 0

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Votes: 0

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Votes: 0

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. Votes: 0

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan. Votes: 0

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have. Votes: 0

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket. Votes: 0

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection. Votes: 0

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first. Votes: 0

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint. Votes: 0

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence. Votes: 0

In the first quarter of 2015, it is necessary to explain to the population and business what fields will be supported by the state Votes: 0

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC. Votes: 0

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business Votes: 0

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. Votes: 0

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. Votes: 0

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. Votes: 0

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death. Votes: 0

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord. Votes: 0

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you. Votes: 0

When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business. Votes: 0

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth. Votes: 0

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal. Votes: 0

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise. Votes: 0

I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work. Votes: 0

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . . Votes: 0

Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God. Votes: 0

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s. Votes: 0

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue? Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. Votes: 0

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on. Votes: 0

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first. Votes: 0

Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations. Votes: 0

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing. Votes: 0

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism. Votes: 0

Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first-the money will follow. Votes: 0

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems. Votes: 0

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel. Votes: 0

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism Votes: 0

Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago. Votes: 0

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel. Votes: 0

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel. Votes: 0

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. Votes: 0

You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor. Votes: 0

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all. Votes: 0

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me. Votes: 0

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started. Votes: 0

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. Votes: 0

For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business. Votes: 0

Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee. Votes: 0

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. Votes: 0

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have. Votes: 0

The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series. Votes: 0

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it. Votes: 0

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. Votes: 0

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. Votes: 0

The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. Votes: 0

Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge. Votes: 0

I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don't face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage. Votes: 0

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss Votes: 0

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. Votes: 0

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. Votes: 0

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model. Votes: 0

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required." Votes: 0

What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up. Votes: 0

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends. Votes: 0

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have. Votes: 0

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress. Votes: 0

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class. Votes: 0

My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very good genre to me. Votes: 0