S. J. Perelman Quotes

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

S. J. Perelman

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• I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Think
  • Law

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Business
  • News
  • Gathering

• I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • World
  • Money
  • Business

• During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Great
  • Business
  • Football

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Best
  • Value

• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Single

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Business
  • Giving

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Business
  • Creative

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm retired from the daredevil business.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Business
  • Retired
  • Daredevil

• Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Business
  • Changes
  • Now

• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited as the British monarchy.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • Power

• I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Travel
  • Judge
  • Unknown

• Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

  

  Mehmet Oz

• If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Business