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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate."
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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
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"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
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"I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention."
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"Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred."
Movies

"When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way."
Actor

"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."
Time

"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."
Movies

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
Movies

"If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not."
Business

"I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price."
Business

"It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese."
Help

"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."
Money

"I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand."
Business
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