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.
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.
When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.
Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.
