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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.
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.
- Film Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed that as actors, one of the biggest advantages of being in the film business - not just of being actors, but being in this industry - is the fact that you get to travel so much, and you get to see places that you probably would not if you went just as a tourist.
- Dictators
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- Nov 07, 2020