Quotes About Business

Producers shoot movies where the tax incentives are.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

Producers are now employees, not creators.

The law is against us music composers. We have no legal control over our compositions. Music companies are selling our songs to producers at throwaway prices. We are helpless.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business.

Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

Nike is Nike. Adidas is Adidas. I've played in their circuits and stuff like that, but now it's a business. You don't want just product. You're not a kid anymore. You're really trying to get bank. That's about it.

Look, Pitbull is a product.

It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

When you say we're bringing a product to market, you make sure you execute.

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.