Quotes About Success

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.