Business Quotes

Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.

If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

Don’t coach for the name on your business card

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

I'm an entrepreneur and I love business. That's what I've always done. I went to school for that. My father took me out and said, 'You're gonna be here like everybody else.'

We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.

No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

Advertising can be a very frustrating business.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

Business before pleasure.

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.