Quotes About Business

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

Without a customer, you don't have a business - all you have is a hobby.

We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.

If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.