Quotes About Business

I've always looked towards mainstream. Many offers have come but they've been the wrong kind of offers. They are not the right business decisions for me to take.

Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.

My dad was a dentist; my mom managed his office.

In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.

I have an agreement with the dental office I work for that we'll be closed on Wednesdays.

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

I never envisioned multimillion-dollar offices for ECW.

I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.

In this industry, there's a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you're often a customer and a vendor in another way. It's not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it's not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

I had a couple of investments that didn't go my way. That's why I laugh at guys who say, 'Oh, I'm going to open a clothing line. I'm going to start a restaurant.'

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

Making movies used to be fun in the old days. It isn't any longer. It's a coldhearted business.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done.