Business Quotes
I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.
The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.
When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.
As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.
The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...
It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.
All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.
I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.
My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.
Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.
I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.
I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.
In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.