Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
— Walt Disney
What keeps you in this business is the thought that maybe tomorrow will be different.
— Walker Hayes
We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
— W. H. Davies
Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
— W. Averell Harriman
There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.
— Vladimir Potanin
I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.
— Vivienne Westwood
I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.
— Vivienne Ming
I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.
— Vivek Wadhwa
Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.
I'd encourage more young people to apply their talents beyond finance and consulting and to think about reshaping how medicines are brought to market and how the business is run.
— Vivek Ramaswamy
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
— Viswanathan Anand
When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules.
— Virginia Postrel
When you are an actor, you are in the most powerless position in this business.
— Viola Davis
The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models.
— Vint Cerf
You take something like RingCentral. It doesn't need any more money or financing: it is relatively mature, recurring revenue business - not really worried - but you know, we could sell it tomorrow. We have not been in a rush to sell it. We don't care about exits as much. We care about building fundamental value.
— Vinod Khosla
I've always been a down-to-earth business guy.
— Vinnie Paul
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
— Wally George
In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
— W. G. Sebald
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
— W. Clement Stone
Regardless of if I'm a size 6 or 26 it's nobody's business and nobody has the right to body shame me or anyone else.
— Vogue Williams
Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
For me, I usually play the kick -butt, strong business type.
— Vivica A. Fox
The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.
I concentrate on acting while my dad handles the business side of my career.
— Vivek Oberoi
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
— Virginia Woolf
I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to write a chapter per week, and if I am not finished by Friday, I write on the weekend. I get a lot of fan emails and answer them every day. In the late afternoon, I attend to the business of publishing, etc.
— Virginia Henley
I'm in the business of creating human beings.
Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?
I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'
— Ving Rhames
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of her house. She was kind of a high up in the music business, and she knew that I needed cash, and I used to do some yard work for her.
The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.
— W. Kamau Bell
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
— W. Edwards Deming
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.
— Vladimir Putin
After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.
The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.
In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.
I have lots of business outside of the Octagon, and I'm looking to have fun.
— Vitor Belfort
Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.
There are days when you make runs, and there will be a dry spell. Like in business, every year you don't make profits.
— Virender Sehwag
We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
It's called the music business. We've all gone into it 'cause we love the music, and a lot of people end up with nothing at the end of the day, after they've done all of this great music, 'cause they never learned any of the business side.
