Quotes & Jokes about Business / page 6

I’ve made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I’ve mostly been successful.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

"This is no way to run a business," I told Dim Sum, and then looked at Tons of Fun. "And you might want to lay off the carbs, you fucking wildebeest."

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

The best thing I ever heard about doing comedy is that it’s the "business of rejection".

No, even when you're making fun of people in this business, they want to take credit for it. That's how big the egos are.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

If you have an entry-level position at a fertilizer company, you are literally in the asshole of the shit business.

Some are from the world of the arts, some from the fields of business, architecture, wine-making and education. What they have in common is that they are all known nationally - and many internationally - for their wide-ranging achievements.

You know, I've always wanted to be a young Charles Kuralt. I started in this business with just a Winnebago and a dream.

It's just such a gross business. I see why people get eaten from the inside out. Even when it's going well it's hard to deal with.

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, "Hey, can you keep a secret?" I say "That's none of your business."

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.