Business Quotes

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.
– Christopher Walken
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
– Saul Bellow
I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
– Christopher Walken
I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.
– Kristen Stewart
I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.
– Bryan Cranston
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
– Sydney Pollack
I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
– J. C. Watts
I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
– Dolly Parton
I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.
– Joan Rivers
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
– Jack Kilby
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
– Jim Carrey
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.
– Eric Clapton
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
– Christopher Walken
I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.
– Lauren Conrad
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
– Barry Goldwater
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.
– Megan Fox
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
– Mark Zuckerberg
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
– Cat Stevens
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
– Jeff Bezos
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
– Mark Cuban
I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
– Betty White
I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
– Mark Zuckerberg
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
– John Boehner
I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.
– Tom Colicchio
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
– Amber Tamblyn
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
– Liev Schreiber
I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.
– Shannen Doherty
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
– Sir Edward Appleton
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
– Tony Campolo
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
– Mick Jagger
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
– Loretta Lynn
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
– Billie Holiday
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
– Eddie Van Halen
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
– H. P. Lovecraft
I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
– John le Carre
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
– Catherine the Great
I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
– George Lucas
I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.
– Will Smith
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
– Michael Jackson
I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.
– Dwayne Johnson
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
– David Byrne
I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.
– Harvey Weinstein
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
– Ernie Banks
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
– Mitt Romney
I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.
– Arsenio Hall
I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.
– Kristen Wiig
I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.
– Betty White
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
– Joni Mitchell
I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.
– Jacqueline Bisset
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
– Jodi Picoult
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
– John Irving
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
– Mitt Romney
I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
– Kate Moss
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
– Izaak Walton
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
– Carroll O'Connor
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
– Billy Sunday
I have always been a business person.
– Bethenny Frankel
I hate show business.
– Joni Mitchell
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
– Elvis Presley
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
– Sally Kirkland
I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.
– Ashley Tisdale
I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
– Orlando Bloom
I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.
– Rita Rudner
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
– Daniel Craig
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
– William Hague
I find the business world hard.
– Haile Gebrselassie
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
– Alan Alda
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'.
– Kim Kardashian
I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
– Morgan Freeman
I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.
– Johnny Depp
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
– Paul Ryan
I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
– Hillary Clinton
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
– Billy Graham
I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
– George Michael
I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
– Mick Jagger
I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.
– Herman Cain
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
– Anthony Kiedis
I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
– James Dyson
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
– Mel Brooks
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
– Tom Hanks
I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
– Elizabeth Warren
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
– Dick Wolf
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
– Billy Corgan
I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
– Julia Roberts
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
– Donny Osmond
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
– Billy Sunday
I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.
– Betty White
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
– Jack Kemp
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
– Dolly Parton
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
– Ric Flair
I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.
– Kathy Ireland
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
– Hillary Clinton
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
– Kevin Costner
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
– Barbara Corcoran
I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
– Cameron Diaz
I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.
– Betty White
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
– Valentino Garavani
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
– Sylvester Stallone
I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
– Rihanna