Business Quotes
“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”
“If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.”
-- Harvey Weinstein
“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”
-- Jodie Foster
“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.”
-- Mary Kay Ash
“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'”
-- Jeff Bezos
“Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.”
-- Hugh Laurie
“If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.”
-- Charlie Kaufman