Business Quotes
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A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
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Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn from the mistakes, and how quickly will they get the business in the correct direction?
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I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.
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I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
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We want real job creation and a fertile business environment for small business owners.
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The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.
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I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.
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I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
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My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.
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Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.
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Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.
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When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
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I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.
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In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
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You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
