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Business Quotes
"Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes."
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"I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz."
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"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."
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"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
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"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."
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"It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do."
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"Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan."
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"After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful."
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"The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties."
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"When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun."
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"There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media."
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"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."
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"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected."
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"Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether."
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"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give."
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"Music and the music business are two different things."
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"The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men."
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"Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself."
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"I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two."
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"The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality."
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"He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world."
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"Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity."
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"If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management."
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"I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business."
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"For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize."
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"Well, at the risk of sounding a bit harsh, I think we can safely say that your recent successes could have just as easily been achieved by a mute monkey in a tiny business suit, holding up a written explanation of whatever it was the monkey was attempting to sell."
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"The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring."
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"If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble."
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"Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded."
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"I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star."
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"Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business."
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"A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know."
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