Business Quotes

"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy"

Sally Field, Actress

"As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard"

James Daly, Actor

"Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business"

James Daly, Actor

"I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business"

Paul Hogan, Actor

"Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs"

Wayne Allard, Politician

"TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting"

Michael Medved, Journalist

"The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"From a relatively early age I got interested in business"

Steve Case, Businessman

"Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year"

James Daly, Actor

"I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful"

Ronnie Montrose, Musician

"If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill"

Patty Duke, Actress

"That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it"

Neal Schon, Musician

"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying"

Neil Young, Musician

"Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible"

William Feather, Author

"Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead"

Pete Domenici, Politician

"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries"

Robert Fortune, Scientist

"I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business"

Peter Gallagher, Actor

"We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians"

James P. Hoffa, Businessman

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