Business Quotes

"The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in"

"I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company"

Steven Curtis Chapman, Musician

"Touring is really a pretty lonely business"

Eddy Arnold, Musician

"In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you"

Julie London, Musician

"The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up"

Luke Wilson, Actor

"Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business"

Mike Peters, Cartoonist

"Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants"

Stewart Udall, Politician

"I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me"

Roy Rogers, Entertainer

"Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life"

Lionel Richie, Musician

"Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast"

Jim Allchin, Businessman

"The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources"

Bonnie Raitt, Musician

"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it"

Anna Sewell, Writer

"I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over"

Wes Montgomery, Musician

"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs"

Omar Epps, Actor

"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously"

Dennis Quaid, Actor

"In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner"

Olympia Snowe, Politician

"My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more"

Michael Gerber, Writer

"All the things I love is what my business is all about"

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified"

Jeremy Renner, Actor

"I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible"

Wally George, Celebrity

"In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm"

Thomas Frank, Author

"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades"

Peter Asher, Musician

"Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative"

Jerry Harrison, Musician

"I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star"

Glenn Close, Actress

"The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths"

Gilbert Murray, Diplomat

"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time"

Fran Tarkenton, Athlete

"I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other"

Dennis Farina, Actor

"I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that"

David Arquette, Actor

"The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business"

Mike McCready, Musician

"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent"

Lee Majors, Actor

"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide"

Larry King, Entertainer

"I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

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