Business Quotes
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.
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Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.
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Both Hitler and Mussolini have plagiarized and imitated practically everything from everyone. Mussolini stole from the Bolsheviks and from Gabriele D’Annunzio, and found inspiration in the camp of big business. Hitler imitated the Bolsheviks and Mussolini.
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I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.
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A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
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The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
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All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
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I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.
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I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
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Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
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The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.
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Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated fairly and with respect, they will provide unparalleled levels of support and commitment inside the business, and to clients and customers. Everyone is more successful when people are paid a living wage.
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To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
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I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.
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My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
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The mould was ready for him this season, but that's the way business goes. His potential is unlimited. But when it comes to the defensive side, we have to make him better.
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I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you're already prioritizing the wrong thing. Size is important, but it's a byproduct of a whole bunch of other things that are worth way more of your mental energy - customers, service, quality.
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One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
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I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
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The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
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He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.
