Business Quotes

“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”

-- Joan Didion

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

-- Daniel Craig

“The comic book world is a tough business.”

-- Shia LaBeouf

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

-- John Cleese

“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.”

-- Haile Gebrselassie

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

-- Lenny Bruce

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

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.”

-- Cate Blanchett

“I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.”

-- Ric Flair

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

-- Benjamin Franklin