Business Quotes

"Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country"

Jon Porter, Politician

"Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums"

Kerry King, Musician

"Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything"

Harold Coffin

"I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"I think it is very important in this business to be an individual"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires"

Alan Autry, Actor

"One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"I got into the acting business very young"

James MacArthur, Actor

"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not"

George Michael, Musician

"I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I don't believe we're the party of big business"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film"

Edward Norton, Actor

"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"It's show business. No show, no business"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing"

George Shearing, Musician

"Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films"

David Heyman, Producer

"Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with"

Joe Morton, Actor

"Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies"

Brion James, Actor

"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums"

Bruce Johnston, Musician

"I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

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