Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.
— Tony Fadell
As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan.
— Tony Cardenas
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
— Tony Campolo
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
— Tony Abbott
I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.
— Toni Basil
I grew up thinking of show business as a business.
My education as a filmmaker has been entirely practical. I started working professionally in the film business in 1970, and I've been at it steadily since, and I pay a lot of attention.
— Tommy Lee Jones
I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
— Tommy Kirk
I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.
— Tommy Hilfiger
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.
— Tom Verlaine
When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight for bankruptcy court.'
— Tom Steyer
I'm a 30-year businessperson. I believe in American business. I believe in American ingenuity, and I believe in American innovation.
I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.
— Tom Smothers
When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.
— Tom Scholz
I once started a small business when I got out of college and enjoyed the stress of making it work. High-stress situations clear my head, and I love the challenge of getting along with many different kinds of people. I'm scared of routine.
— Tom Reiss
When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.
— Tom Rath
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.
— Tom Petty
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
— Tony Curtis
Being fined for violating the rules of your league is not the same as a shop owner on Main Street paying to have a new sign hung in front of their business. One is a business expense, the other is a punishment.
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
— Tony Blair
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.
— Toni Tennille
I don't mind having a one-hit wonder as long as I have a career in show business, which has been fabulous.
It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.
I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.
The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.
'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.
— Tommy Davidson
Congress should pass a law repealing birthright citizenship for children of foreign citizens, with the sole exception being children of legal permanent residents. Children born to business travelers, foreign students, tourists, and illegal aliens would not be automatically citizens of the United States.
— Tom Tancredo
Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and let 'the market' decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles.
I think Donald knows climate change is a serious threat - but he only cares about protecting his luxury coastal properties, not the rest of America. Observing his actions as they relate to his business interests offers the best insight into the man behind the bluster.
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
— Tom Shadyac
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
— Tom Robbins
When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations.
— Tom Reed
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
— Tom Rachman
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Every day, opportunities within the hemisphere go untapped, and millions of dollars are lost simply because companies do not know where to begin if they want to expand into new territories and grow their business.
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
— Tony Bennett
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
— Toni Cade Bambara
I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
— Tommy Rettig
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.
I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.
'New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
— Tom Stoppard
The most expensive way to do business is to do it deal by deal, each of which is highly contentious.
Our message to leaders from every continent was simple: California has succeeded on climate and clean energy because we've emphasized local, human values and built a coalition that includes community and environmental leaders, working families, and communities of color - as well as unions and progressive business.
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
— Tom Selleck
Sugar planting was the oil business of the eighteenth century, and Saint-Domingue was the Ancien Regime's Wild West frontier, where sons of impoverished noble families could strike it rich.
Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
