Quotes About Performance

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

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

I took care of my body. Your body is your business in the NFL.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.

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

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

Professional sports is a business.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

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.

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

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

I often think you need a lot of courage to be in the acting business. The job itself can be incredibly challenging for various reasons. Sometimes it's impossible and requires sheer guts.

The market doesn´t care about titles.

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

The accumulation of non-obvious, ineffective, or misapplied actions leads to low productivity.

If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business.

In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.