“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

“I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.”

“You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.”

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”

“People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'”

“You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.”

“I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”

“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

“Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.”

“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.”

“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”

“My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.”

“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”

“I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.”

“The comic book world is a tough business.”

“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”

“I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.”

“When you're eight years old nothing is your business.”

“In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.”