I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.
I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I sho...
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's ...
I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.
I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good.
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one anothe...
I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
We've been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to 'your dad.' Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, 'Well, my daddy said,' we would refer to him as 'Phil.'
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.
