business Quotes

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren’t ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it’s around the world.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

If you’re an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

It’s better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

You can’t run a business or anything else on a theory.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It’s a catch-22. It’s called show business: The word ‘business’ is in it, and you’ve got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.