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I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.
– Lea Michele
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I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
– Owen Hart
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I mean, sports are big, big, big business.
– Phil Lesh
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
– Waylon Jennings
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I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.
– Paul Merton
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
– Hank Haney
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
– Ingrid Newkirk
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I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.
– Jerry Leiber
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I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
– Jesse Helms
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I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
– Claire Danes
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I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
– Celine Dion
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I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.
– Meg Whitman
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I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.
– Boomer Esiason
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I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.
– Eliot Spitzer
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
– Wanda Sykes
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I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
– Trisha Yearwood
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
– Neil Cavuto
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I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
– David Walliams
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
– Adam Carolla
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I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.
– Sebastian Junger
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I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?
– Michael C. Hall
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I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
– Thomas Menino
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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
– Stephen Rea
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
– Zachary Levi
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I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
– Bernard Liautaud
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I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
– Dick Schaap
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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
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I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.
– Angela Cartwright
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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
– Ron Paul
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I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
– Melissa Bean
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I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.
– Kerry Washington
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How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
– Robin Gibb
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
– Caitlin Rose
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
– January Jones
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
– Eddie Bernice Johnson
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
– Wilfrid Laurier
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
– Karl Liebknecht
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
– Desi Arnaz
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
– Bret Easton Ellis
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Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.
– Lizzy Caplan
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Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
– Barbara Corcoran
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Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
– Samuel Witwer
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Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
– Herb Ritts
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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
– Herbert Simon
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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
– John Boehner
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
– Leland Stanford
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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
– J. Paul Getty
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Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.
– Kim Wilde
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Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
– Bill Rancic
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
– Jonathan Kozol
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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.
– Steven Soderbergh
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Business is other people's money.
– Delphine de Girardin
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
– Andy Warhol
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Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
– Tom Bosley
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At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
– Bill Kreutzmann
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At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
– Keith Olbermann
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At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.
– Gerard Arpey
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At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
– Amar Bose
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As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.
– Niklas Zennstrom
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As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
– Tim Scott
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As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
– Bernie Sanders
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
– Harry Seidler
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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
– Richard Rogers
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
– Hank Ketcham
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Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
– Franklin P. Jones
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And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.
– Timothy Geithner
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
– Wayne White
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
– Anita Roddick
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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.
– Nick Lowe
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All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.
– Steve Sabol
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All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
– Graham Kerr
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
– Eddie Bernice Johnson
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After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
– Jim Barksdale
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After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
– Wes Bentley
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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
– Robert Sternberg
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Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
– Mel Gibson
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
– J. Paul Getty
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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
– Charles M. Schwab
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A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'
– Chloe Moretz
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
– Ann Bancroft
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'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.
– Tommy Davidson
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'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
– Bo Derek
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A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
– James Cook
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It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
– James Cook
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Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
– James Cook
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