Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toby Keith

Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

Todd English

We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people.

Tahj Mowry

I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.

Tamara Tunie

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

Sunil Mittal

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

Susan Glaspell

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?

Steven Sinofsky

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

Sean Astin

The sidekick business has been good to me.

Steve Largent

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

Trey Anastasio

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Trent Reznor

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

Tony Benn

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

Tom Colicchio

I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.

Tom Brokaw

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

Theo James

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

Tom Reed

When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations.

Trip Adler

The reason we make money is because we have a few different business models. One is ads: we get incredibly high click rates because most people on Scribd are searching the site for something, or they came from a search engine, and they're looking for something specific.

Triple H

Getting ready to wrestle is like getting ready for a car crash. Getting ready to work with Brock Lesnar is like knowing you're going to get hit by a bus and the bus is going to back over you. If I'm going to work 'WrestleMania,' 16 weeks out I have to start training like I'm Mayweather getting ready for a fight.

Tom Smothers

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

Tony Fernandes

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

Caroline Dhavernas

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

Stephen Covey

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Victor LaValle

The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.

Vic Mignogna

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.

I thought the kids competed. It's hard to do less than 24 hours after coming off an eight-hour bus trip.

Bernie Sanders

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

I think we match up very well with them. I hope the players are all business tonight, knowing the playoffs are coming up and knowing we match up well with our opponent. We'll work real hard the next week-and-a-half.

I think we'll feed them and they'll feed us, ... When you can see the neon sign of the bank, the restaurant or whatever, the businesses are there, that's great. It's a great partnership.

I think we'll be busy with it for the next day or so. We're trying to get it sorted out.