Business Quotes
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I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
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I sometimes compare starting a business to having a child. You have a moment of profound inspiration, followed by months of thankless hard work and waking up in the middle of the night.
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The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.
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People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.
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If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
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I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.
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If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.
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When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
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I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
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The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.
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Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
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Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
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I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
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I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.
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People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.
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I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
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The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.
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I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.
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My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.
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I basically went into business for myself. But it never amounted to anything. I learned a lot about editing and dubbing by watching all the professionals do it, but I never got a job out of my imposition.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.
