Business Quotes

If you’re a car salesman, and someone says “This is a terrible car, I’m not buying it,” it doesn’t mean they hate you. They just don’t like your product. I think that’s a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they’re so tied to their act they take everything personally.

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it.

It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, “As for you young man, you haven’t got much of a future.”

With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It’s been that way for years, and it hasn’t gotten much better.

We’ve got the most prosperous culture in human history and we’ve also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, “I can’t fill the hole with money. I can’t fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?”

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don’t vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

I’ve stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you’ll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn’t have her own show.

I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.

It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.