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Quotes about business
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Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. (Cleese John)
I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. (Cleese John)
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly. (Cleese John)
In many respects, I think a lot of businessmen have become highly insensitive to the world, the environment, to everything around them. What are they doing with the millions and millions of dollars they're making? Why don't they give anything back? That, to me, is the height of insensitivity. (Cleese John)
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On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. (Cleese John)
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie. (Cleese John)
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. (Cleese John)
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know. (Cleese John)
Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore. (Cleese John)
I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it. (Cleese John)
I think the business has changed. It's changed since I've been in it. It's different now than it was in 92, 93 when I was in the Power of One. (Cleese John)
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.” (Cleese John)
“Where we think our business will really take off is because of Chris Daly's ill-advised legislation.” (Cleese John)
“It's my 'It's Strictly Business, but I'm on vacation' look.” (Cleese John)
“The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.” (Cleese John)
“So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.” (Cleese John)
By my teens I had decided to quit show business as soon as I was married. (Cleese John)
“In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.” (Cleese John)
“In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing interest in faces because new ones come along every single second. I'm one at the moment. Tomorrow I won't be. That's cool. I'm not saying that when it does end, I'll be like, 'Yay! It's ending.' But I'll move on and do something else because that's what has to be done. It's about survival. If you're sad about it, then you're in the wrong job.” (Cleese John)
I'm in the business of asking the toughest questions I can possibly ask, and of all sides, of both sides, and letting the people listening make up their minds. (Cleese John)
“If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.” (Cleese John)
“I've been in this business for 18 years; they're 18,” (Cleese John)
I'm in this business and I'm not dumb. It's good to be able to share the wealth a little bit, get a star. It's important. (Cleese John)
I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time. (Cleese John)
“The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.” (Cleese John)
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