Quotes About Industry

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

I would like to get nominated for a Grammy, but I don't set out to do that anymore, though, 'cause I never felt like I got my just due in the business, period anyway.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

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

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.

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

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

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".