“I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.”
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“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
“I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.”
“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.”
“Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.”
“The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.”
“We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
“Music and the music business are two different things.”
“In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.”
“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”
“Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.”
“When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.”
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
“I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.”
“When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.”