I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. 544
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I’ve always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did. 547
You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work. 626
These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they’ve got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney. 1.13K
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees. 1.25K
As far as I’m concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. 1.31K
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. 546
Money is not the motivating force. It’s nice to have money, but I don’t live high. What I enjoy is running the business. 591
It’s a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven’t got any other business interests. 1.25K
Like everybody in show business, you think you’re going to wake up one day, and it’s all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business – the ones I talk to, anyway. 530
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers. 548
The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that’s changing. It happened to the music industry and now it’s happening to the film studios. It’s crazy what’s going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea. 562
America’s political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies. 616