However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
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.
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 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.
