“I'm not really in the excuse business.”
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“The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.”
“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”
“The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.”
“I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.”
“Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.”
“Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.”
“You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.”
“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.”
“You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.”
“A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.”
“Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.”
“I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.”
“I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.”
“There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'”
“I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.”
“The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.”
“Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.”
“The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.”
“You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.”
“The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.”
“I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.”
“I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.”
“My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.”