Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Irving Stone

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Bernard Arnault

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Anthony Storr

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

Terri Johnson

That would be the three of us. The Creative Three: myself, my sister and Jesse Kuhn, the designer.

Joseph Jarman

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Najib Razak

We have to innovate. No nation can be successful unless they are involved in innovative and creative activities,

Christina Hendricks

We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.

Baz Luhrmann

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

Nancy Zimpher

We couldn't be happier to have you here.

Ken Kendrick

We couldn't be happier about it. Tony has just been phenomenal in all aspects.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

Joe Bugel

I tell you, my wife and I can't be happier (to be back). And I know we're going to stay here until we get this program resolved and back to the Super Bowl.

Paolo Bacigalupi

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

Marco Sullivan

I would have been happier to get the spot outright, but everyone is going so good, so it was the fairest way of doing it.

Tom Cruise

I find that, especially with children, they want to contribute. Even my kids, when they come in and they mess up the work and I'm busy, but they are just trying to help out, so I always say, 'Thank you.' That's how I am with them and I find that they're happier and I'm happier as a result.

M. Wolfe

There is no person who is happier for me, ... He's been nothing but supportive and we have such a mutual respect for each other.

Lee Radziwill

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

Denis Villeneuve

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Cecil Rhodes

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Carrie Fisher

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Carl Rogers

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

Carl Sagan

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

Carl Sagan

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

Carl Sagan

The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.