David Geffen Quotes
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
Quotes to Explore
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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Any job is wonderful.
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.
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I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.
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I've had dogs all my life. I'm a huge animal lover, especially dogs, so that's one of the hardest things about being away all the time. I really miss them, but my mum does a really good job looking after then when I'm gone.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.
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I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
