I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
Red: Get busy living or get busy dying. That's goddamn right!
Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
If politicians and business leaders become "protectors of creation" nature shall be saved.
Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, C...
Henry Gatewood: [clutching valise with embezzled funds] I can't get over the impertinence of that young lieutenant. I'll make it warm for that shake-tail! I'll report him to Washington - we pay taxes to the government and what do we get? Not even pro...
Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
In the tortoise and the hair fable, I believe the tortoise represents big business, while the hair represents small business. Not featured in the fable is the six-ton snail, which represents the government. Not only is it massive and unbelievably slo...
Are engineers better at business than business people? It’s debatable. Business people certainly seems to have bigger houses, drive fancier cars, wear nicer clothes and have better looking mates. Engineers lack the time management skills to spend t...
I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo...
You will never know a man till you do business with him.
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all ev...
Carol-Anne, American Goddess: The thing that's gonna make it more crowded? Harriet. Jeannie, American Angel: Oh, Harriet! Carol-Anne, American Goddess: You haven't met Harriet. Colin: There's a fourth one? Carol-Anne, American Goddess, Jeannie, Amer...
I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses.
If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.
a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.
