Business Quotes

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

Business news is sexy.

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community

Big business has no party and never shall have.

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.