Business Quotes

"Business is more exciting than any game"

"Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign"

David Zucker, Director

"I may quit the music business someday, but never the music"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

"There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality"

Bryan White, Musician

"We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience"

Debbi Fields, Businesswoman

"I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business"

Robin Trower, Musician

"I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

"The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album"

Rick Allen, Musician

"Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee"

Michael Beschloss, Historian

"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business"

Michael Beschloss, Historian

"When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire"

David Zucker, Director

"I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to"

Rihanna, Musician

"Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business"

John Moody, Businessman

"It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business"

William Bell

"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin"

John Irving, Novelist

"In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise"

Ted Danson, Actor

"Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

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