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• I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

  Dennis Muren

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Time

• What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

  Dennis Miller

  Topics in Business

  Tags in People

• One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

  Dennis Hastert

  Topics in Business, Money

• Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.

  Dennis Hastert

  Topics in Business, Economy

  Tags in Succeed

• The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees – just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

  Dennis Hastert

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Manufacturers

• I learned a long time ago: You’re in the entertainment business. You’re not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

  Dennis Farina

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Entertainment

• This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

  Debra Wilson

  Topics in Business

  Tags in People, Like

• We’ve never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she’s an icon and she’s been one of my main mentors in this business.

  Deborah Cox

  Topics in Business

• This business is about working. It’s really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That’s the privilege. And that’s what all the work leads up to, and that’s why it’s worth it to me.

  Debbie Gibson

  Topics in Business, Work

  Tags in People

• I started at a very early age in this business and I’m sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.

  Dean Stockwell

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Consequences

• I have this mistress: show business.

  Ray Romano

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Mistress

• War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Human

• Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

  David Johansen

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Music

• I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

  David Talbot

  Topics in Business, Work

  Tags in Editorial

• Everything about it worked, and I don’t mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there’s also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Business, Work

• I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early ’70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Political

• Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

  David S. Zucker

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Movie

• A business plan should never take more than a few hours of work. Hopefully no more than a few minutes. The best plans start simple. A quick glance and common sense should tell you if the numbers will work. The rest are details.

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Business, Work

  Tags in Planning

• There’s a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner. Being self-employed feels like freedom until you realize that if you take time off, your business crumbles. To be a true business owner, make sure you could leave for a year, and when you came back, your business would be doing better than when you left.

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Difference, Employment

• Business is not about money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Business