Business Quotes

"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater"

John Hurt, Actor

"It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture"

John Carpenter, Director

"I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were"

Robert Englund, Actor

"The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"The business has changed greatly since my day"

Perry Como, Musician

"Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture"

Robert Evans, Director

"You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession"

Henry R. Luce, Editor

"I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar"

Trevor Horn, Musician

"If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it"

Paul Giamatti, Actor

"The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work"

Martha Reeves, Musician

"Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together"

Michael Davis

"Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging"

Matt Damon, Actor

"I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful"

Eddie Murphy, Comedian

"We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great"

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Educator

"It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me"

Kate Beckinsale, Actress

"My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business"

Wanda Sykes, Comedian

"The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt"

Scott Brown, Politician

"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like"

Sam Waterston, Actor

"If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of"

Jeff Garcia, Athlete

"The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart"

Henry Cisneros, Politician

"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out"

Hank Ketcham, Cartoonist

"I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October"

Peter Bart, Editor

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