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.”
“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
-- Robert Browning
“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”
-- A. C. Benson
“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”
-- Julia Roberts
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
-- Ambrose Bierce
“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”
-- Shaquille O'Neal