Quotes about: business

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
– Eli Wallach
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
– Curt Schilling
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
– Lev Grossman
I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
– Terry McAuliffe
I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
– Felix Baumgartner
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
– Curt Schilling
I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
– Sara Blakely
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
– Alan Ladd
I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
– Ashley Tisdale
I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.
– Avril Lavigne
I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
– Tyra Banks
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.
– Rachel Bilson
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
– Cameron Diaz
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
– Dane Cook
I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.
– Harvey Weinstein
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
– Patti Smith
I'm not really in the excuse business.
– Bill Parcells
I'm not into business at all.
– Freddie Mercury
I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
– Kristen Bell
I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
– Michelle Obama
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.
– Hugh Jackman
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
– Francis Ford Coppola
I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
– Haile Gebrselassie
I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.
– Melanie Roach
I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
– Betty White
I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
– Chris Rock
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.
– Kenneth Robert Livingstone
I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
– Calvin Klein
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
– Lev Grossman
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
– James Taylor
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
– Don Henley
I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.
– Linda Gray
I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.
– NeNe Leakes
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
– Roy Rogers
I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
– Diana Ross
I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.
– Hugh Jackman
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
– Bill Rancic
I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
– Kate Moss
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
– Robert Duvall
I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.
– Alison Sweeney
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
– Caroline Wozniacki
I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
– Sara Blakely
I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.
– Sean Paul
I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.
– James Maslow
I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
– Katherine Jenkins
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
– Tupac Shakur
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
– Lucille Ball
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
– V. S. Naipaul
I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
– Bethenny Frankel
I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.
– Giada De Laurentiis
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
– Barbara Corcoran
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
– Jennifer Aniston
I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.
– Tony Hale
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
– Alexander Wang
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
– Elizabeth Olsen
I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
– John Stossel
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
– Cat Stevens
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
– Mitch Hedberg
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
– Jeremy Renner
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
– Alan Greenspan
I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
– Dave Chappelle
I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.
– Gary Numan
I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
– Jon Bon Jovi
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
– Rod Stewart
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
– Celine Dion
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
– Kate Moss
I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
– Victoria Beckham
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
– John Legend
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
– Snoop Dogg
I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.
– Marco Rubio
I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.
– Ashlee Simpson
I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
– Judy Holliday
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
– Irvine Welsh
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
– Thomas Friedman
I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.
– Meg Whitman
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
– David Zucker
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 some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
– Christopher Shays
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 that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
– Sergei Bubka
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 one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
– Garry Shandling
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
– Sydney Pollack
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
– Patricia Clarkson
I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.
– Tommy Hilfiger
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 for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.
– Tim DeKay
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