“Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.”
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“I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.”
“Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.”
“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.”
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”
“If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.”
“Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.”
“When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.”
“Politics is just show business for ugly people.”
“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.”
“The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.”
“I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.”
“Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.”
“My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.”
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.”
“Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.”
“I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.”
“I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.”
“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.”
“Music and the music business are two different things.”
“Interior design is a business of trust.”
“If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.”
“I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.”
“When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.”