The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. Use this quote
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things. Use this quote
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work. Use this quote
If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret. Use this quote
What other people think about me is not my business. Use this quote
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. Use this quote
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Use this quote
It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business. Use this quote
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. Use this quote
I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea. Use this quote
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. Use this quote
I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies. Use this quote
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. Use this quote
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. Use this quote
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business. Use this quote
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Use this quote
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career. Use this quote
And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. Use this quote
