Business Quotes

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

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.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

But this is called show business, not show family.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.