Famous Quotes & Sayings

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Loudon Wainwright III

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

Nick Hanauer

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

Neil Cross

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

Neal Schon

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Whaling was the oil business of its day.

Lesley Visser

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

Lindy Booth

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, 'I'm an actor.'

Lisa Unger

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Dick Cheney

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

Tom Johnson

We are grateful for Lou's leadership over the years and for his nearly two decades of groundbreaking reporting and anchoring in the field of business news,

We didn't do a huge junior business. We have business shoppers at the lunch-crunch period.

Banksy

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Lindsey Shaw

You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

Linda McMahon

I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.

Linden Ashby

I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.

Laurence D. Fink

What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.

Max Stirner

Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a 'matter of conscience,' i.e. police business.

Vicki Lawrence

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

Vicki Lawrence

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

Yves Behar

What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

Blake Mycoskie

You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.

Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.

The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones. The challenge for small business is knowing where customers are and reaching them effectively.

Bobby Bowden

There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

Bobbi Brown

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

Paulo Coelho

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

Bonnie Bedelia

I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!

Blythe Danner

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

Billy Porter

There aren't many hits like 'Kinky Boots,' so when you get one, the gratitude that comes with it fuels your energy. From the time I started in this business, everybody told me that who I was and what I represented would never work. Well, I get to stand on stage every day and prove the naysayers wrong by doing exactly what they told me not to do.