Quotes About Performance

It's show business. No show, no business.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

Football is business and business is business.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

There's no business like show business.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.