Quotes About Business

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.