Business Quotes

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

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

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.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

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

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

I've been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is 'do you still want to work?' Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.