Business Quotes

If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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

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.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

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.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

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.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?