Business Quotes
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.
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Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.
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TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.
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I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.
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When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.
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I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.
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Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
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If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
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I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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If you want success and longevity for your business, earning a reputation for integrity is crucial. People want to work with people and companies they can trust. Trying to hide a mistake and hope nobody notices or passing the buck does not inspire confidence or respect—from anyone, employees, vendors, or customers alike. Owning up shows integrity and whatever embarrassment you may feel is worth it because in the end people will likely trust you more going forward. It’s not the mistake that is a deal-breaker, it’s being dishonest about it.
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You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.
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Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.
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There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.
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College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.
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If more people learned to understand their real business interests correctly and to act accordingly, we would have a much better world.
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Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
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We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.
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The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
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During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
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Your first two bosses in any business are very important to you. Learning from that was pretty important. You can’t learn the music business in college – certainly not in those days.
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From the biological standpoint, people deprived of the human moment in their day-to-day business dealings, actually in all domains of their lives, are losing brain cells - literally - while those who cultivate the human moment are growing them.
