Business Quotes
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I feel like I grew up in the investment business. My dad was at T. Rowe Price his whole career. We lived in Baltimore and had a small social circle, so most of my dad's friends also worked for T. Rowe.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.
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The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
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Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.
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In business, experience is the big teacher.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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The more followers you have, the more you can promote your movie. You know? It's all, like, a business thing.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
