Business Quotes

I've always treated the music business as a business.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

God does business with those who mean business.

Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business...I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle.

I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.

You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

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

It's not personal, it's strictly business

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

The boring side of business is what makes it work.

During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.