“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

“I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.”

“I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.”

“My business doesn't keep me warm at night.”

“The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.”

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”

“I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.”

“I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.”

“I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.”

“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.”

“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”

“Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.”

“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.”

“I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.”

“Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.”

“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”

“Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.”

“Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.”

“A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.”

“I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.”