Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.
Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader
The least important person in a business is the most important person in a business.
Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Life is busy passing us by while we're busy saying hello and goodbye
He who loves peace minds his own business.
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
When you're out of luck in the coffin making business, no one dies.
The art of doing business lies more in paying than in buying.
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty...
Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself.
There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.
[Hundreds of contained prisoners rise up around Anderton and Gideon] John Anderton: My God, I forgot there were so many. Gideon: And just think, they'd all be out there killing people if it wasn't for you. Look at how peaceful they all are. But on th...
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.
The right attitude is everything!
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.
