- Credit
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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most interesting things that I'm seeing of the Trump picks is such a heavy business and financial focus. I can't help but feel like this is going to throw a lot of policy weight and details back to Congress, because these are not people who have a lot of experience drafting legislation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I'm smart enough and have been around the business long enough to know you don't really retire.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, when you grow up in the music business, people heard me sing from a young age, and you get offered development deals and things like that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 15 when I read the script for 'Earth to Echo.' I thought it was amazing, and I couldn't think of turning it down. It's awesome for a kid from Brooklyn to have an opportunity to be on the big screen. And I had a great experience learning what the movie business is like. So, I'm glad I did it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more equity now in movies and TV, although I think its mostly because of changing demographics. It's not a moral proposition. It's good business. Shows about people of all colors are making money.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020