Business Quotes
“You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?”
“Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.”
-- Edward Norton
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.”
-- Confucius
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
-- Jack Welch
“I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.”
-- Ron Perlman