There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.
It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.