Business Quotes

"Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me"

Jackie Cooper, Actor

"So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different"

Jackie Cooper, Actor

"Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business"

Rene Auberjonois, Actor

"A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly"

Tony Hsieh, Businessman

"The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling"

Tim Reid, Actor

"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles"

Juice Newton, Musician

"The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death"

Franz Lehar, Composer

"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next"

V. S. Naipaul, Novelist

"While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace"

Michael Bergdahl, Author

"It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people"

Mark Roberts, Actor

"It's unfortunate that music has become such big business"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it"

Luke Perry, Actor

"It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever"

LeAnn Rimes, Musician

"If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?"

Don Young, Politician

"In this business, you never say no to anything"

Mercedes Ruehl, Actress

"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students"

Daniel H. Hill, Soldier

"In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time"

Bobby Flay, Celebrity

"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman"

Karolina Kurkova, Model

"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector"

Kenny Guinn, Politician

"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one"

Claudia Schiffer, Model

"I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn"

Stanley Fish, Writer

"There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

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