If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.