Top 100 Biz Quotes
#1. Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.
Jesse Schell
#2. I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
Joe Rogan
#3. I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Albert Brooks
#5. But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.
Rob Sheffield
#6. You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.
Jeff Foxworthy
#7. This game is lame, the music comes second
So you can save that stupidness for all them artists you checkin.
Popularity don't last long, I'm in it for classics,
Cause the other side of the biz is fake and it's plastic.
Craig G
#8. My big fear is that I'll put down so many people, I'll have to leave show biz.
Andy Kindler
#9. Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine problems and you're the biggest one of them. Rehv to John
J.R. Ward
#10. My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
Micky Dolenz
#11. When people ask Biz about his wealth, he tells them that money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really are.
Nick Bilton
#12. There's a long-standing debate in the media biz over whether the news outlets should give the public what it wants, or what it needs. This debate presupposes that media execs actually know what it wants or needs. And that there actually is a unitary "public.
Brooke Gladstone
#13. Dixie?" "Yeah." "You ever try to crack an AI?" "Sure. I flatlined. First time. I was larkin', jacked up real high, out by Rio heavy commerce sector. Big biz, multinationals, Government of Brazil lit up like a Christmas tree.
William Gibson
#14. The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
Christopher Judge
#15. Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend
Kool G Rap
#16. I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
Big Smo
#17. Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.
Paul Feig
#18. I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.
Michael Ontkean
#19. I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.
Gilbert Gottfried
#21. Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.
Tom Rachman
#22. I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
Bill Nye
#23. If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#24. I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
Julia Sweeney
#25. The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.
Eric Burdon
#26. I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.
Prince Royce
#27. I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.
Cobie Smulders
#28. Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.
Dave Ramsey
#29. I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.
John Orloff
#30. Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels as if readers are looking for the same style/approach from the same writer over and over again, which hasn't helped me in the publishing biz.
Scott Bradfield
#31. Butch: -I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question though
Vishous: -What
Butch: -When the females tie you down, do they paint your toe-nails and shit? Or just do your makeup? Wait ... they tickle your pits with feather, right?
J.R. Ward
#32. We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.
Shawn Amos
#33. Absolutely no one writes their most intimate feelings and deep, dark secrets in a diary anymore! WHY?! Because just one or two people knowing all your BIZ could completely ruin your reputation. You're supposed to post this kind of juicy stuff online in your BLOG so MILLIONS can read it!!!
Rachel Renee Russell
#34. I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.
Adrian Grenier
#35. Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.
Jim Ross
#36. Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.
Laura Kuenssberg
#37. I got to wear pancake makeup because you know I'm a show biz professional and they all wear pancake makeup. I got to drink free cokes!
Levi Johnston
#38. I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.
Ryan Reynolds
#39. Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
Gabe Kaplan
#40. The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.
Scott Ellis
#41. Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
Lyle Lovett
#42. Coachella is a magnet for music-biz luminaries such as Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz.
Adam Schlesinger
#43. This might be the end of the world as we know it, but it's still show biz.
Richard Kadrey
#44. I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.
Henry Cho
#45. If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
Iggy Pop
#46. Basically each one of us is alone here. Everything else is show biz.
Art Hochberg
#47. I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.
Paul Feig
#48. They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security ... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
Aaron Levie
#49. When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.
Bonnie McFarlane
#50. The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
Ken Bruen
#51. When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.
Pixie Lott
#52. Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#53. Any entrepreneur with the title 'CEO' on his biz card has got a hell of a lot to learn yet.
Chris White
#54. I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.
John Keltonic
#55. I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50
David Lee Roth
#56. We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".
Mitch Hedberg
#57. We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.
Neil Innes
#58. If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.
Orrin Woodward
#59. The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers.
Gucci Mane
#60. Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O'Connor
#61. In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.
Drew Carey
#62. I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
Biz Stone
#64. Your goals should be bigger than your ego,
Biz Stone
#65. Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
Biz Stone
#66. In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.
Biz Stone
#67. I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
Biz Stone
#68. Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
Biz Stone
#69. I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.
Biz Stone
#70. The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.
Biz Stone
#71. I thought about tennis. But the more I thought about the whole thing - lessons, equipment, going to the courts - I said screw it, I'm just going to go buy a pair of sneakers and go running.
Biz Stone
#72. You can provide a short-format content, and it can grow, and it can spread virally across the entire Twitter system, and it can contain within it a link to something that's much longer, that's a long essay or that's a video.
Biz Stone
#73. We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.
Biz Stone
#74. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Biz Stone
#75. Constraint inspires creativity
Biz Stone
#76. The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
Biz Stone
#77. At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.
Biz Stone
#78. The smallest, earliest gifts forever alter your trajectory for doing good. This is what I mean by the compound interest of altruism. Start early to maximize the compound interest in your efforts.
Biz Stone
#79. Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it.
Biz Stone
#80. I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
Biz Stone
#81. The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.
Biz Stone
#82. Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
Biz Stone
#83. I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.
Biz Stone
#84. I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
Biz Stone
#85. We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.
Biz Stone
#86. Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.
Biz Stone
#87. Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
Biz Stone
#88. People first. Technology second.
Biz Stone
#89. My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.
Biz Stone
#90. The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth
Biz Stone
#91. I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
Biz Stone
#92. I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
Biz Stone
#93. I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.
Biz Stone
#94. The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
Biz Stone
#95. When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
Biz Stone
#96. When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.
Biz Stone
#97. Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz?
And cell phones and beepers was the new trends?
When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?
Biz Markie
#98. Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.
Biz Stone
#99. The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
Biz Stone
#100. I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
Biz Stone
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