- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business Quotes
On risk, reinvention and the realities of business.
These quotes cover business from a few honest angles: the risk small operations take on hiring, breaking into an industry you weren't trained for, and how far an entire business can shift over the years. For more, see our Businessman quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Move
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a business, you've got to move on.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.
- Nov 07, 2020
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There's somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there's not a lot of support for the family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020