Quotes About Success

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

I never went into business to make money, but I have found that if I have fun, the money will come.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

Any business you're involved with, and racing is no different, is about people. It's all about people.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.