You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness. . . I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.
Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key.
My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.
Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
One of the reasons we moved to L. A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L. A. , then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.
In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,. . . and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. . . it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.