Business Quotes
“The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.”
“My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.”
-- Ted Turner
“I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.”
-- Cat Stevens
“Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.”
-- Warren Buffett
“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
-- Jerome K. Jerome
“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.”
-- David Lynch
“Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.”
-- William Shatner