You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on 'Felicity' that was modeled after me, actually.
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.
Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
I'm not as interested in what you make as I am in what you're passionate about. What business are you really in?
When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
