Quotes About Performance

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.