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!

David Geffen

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• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Business
  • Feel
  • Emotions

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Goal

• We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Because
  • Strategy

• 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.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Theatre
  • Theater
  • Boston

• I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Job
  • Like
  • Fortunate

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Real
  • Family
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Edith Head
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Years

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• 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.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Business
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• Any job is wonderful.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Job
  • Wonderful
  • Any

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Job
  • Soul
  • Song

• My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I live by the 80-20 rule: 80 percent of the time, you eat really healthy, and 20 percent, you treat yourself.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Time
  • Live

• It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.

  

  Colin Montgomerie
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Difficult

• I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Want
  • Things
  • Better

• 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!

  

  David Geffen
  • Business
  • Job
  • Theatre