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.”
“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.”
-- Michael Jackson
“Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.”
-- Edward de Bono
“Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.”
-- John Cusack
“That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.”
-- Steven Morrissey
“I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.”
-- Dane Cook