Quotes About Business

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

If you think about corporate legal work that's done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is repeatable processes.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

The music and movie business has been consistently wrong in its claims that new platforms and channels would be the end of its businesses. In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

I don't think of myself as a producer. In television, it's part of the business - if you progress and become successful as a writer, you're called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I'm just a writer.

Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.

Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'

The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'

The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.

I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen.

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.

Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he built his label to have big artists like Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Then he started up a headphone company and made it a billion dollar business. He's a genius to me.

If you screw up five films straight, then you're done. It's a business, the producer invests money and you need to make sure his money is recovered and in the process you give out the best film.

I have never had the problem of finding a producer for my films. I think I am just lucky because my first film didn't do great box office business.

I think everyone is making a lot of money, whether it is the actors, the producers, or the TV channels.