Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
— Trevor Rabin
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
— Trevor Nunn
The administration has taken its inexcusable apathy a step further, declaring that even abiding by the few token sanctions in place isn't truly necessary, as evidenced by the now 20 countries to which the Obama administration has granted waivers to continue doing business with Iran.
— Trent Franks
In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.
— Travis Kalanick
After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business.
Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
— Tracy Morgan
I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.
— Tracy K. Smith
I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.
— Townes Van Zandt
There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
— Tori Amos
My public image is none of my business.
— Tony Wilson
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
— Tony Snow
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
— Tony Scott
For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
— Tony Hsieh
I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.
— Tony Hale
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.
— Tony Greig
I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
— Tony Fernandes
It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business.
— Tony Fadell
What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels between the way that was being constructed and the way that prisons had been constructed since the early 1980s.
— Trevor Paglen
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
— Trevor Horn
My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.
— Travis Scott
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
From all the years that I've been in the business, you know that ballads are what impact. Mid-tempos are great, you can sell some records on 'em, but when it comes down to it, ballads are the meat-and-potatoes on the album.
— Tracy Lawrence
I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.
— Tracy Chapman
I've been involved in motorsports from the commercial point of view for many years with my involvement with DTM and managing other businesses, such as a rally business as well where we are collaborating with Red Bull.
— Toto Wolff
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Drivers' work is outside the usual course of Uber's business, which is serving as a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplace.
— Tony West
My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green Bay, Wis., married, bought a house, and he and my mom, Helen, raised 10 kids. Everything depended on his one-man business driving a truck.
— Tony Shalhoub
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
— Tony Parsons
I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.
It's always a surprise! This business is always an adventure.
While I was playing, I started a company that didn't work out. I got a taste of the business world and realized I'm not going to be a 9-to-5 guy in the office after football is over. When the opportunity came for television. I thought, 'Let's go for it,' even though it was nerve-racking. I enjoyed it.
— Tony Gonzalez
Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.
Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?
After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.
— Trent Reznor
Uber is a global business. We don't think just in terms of the U.S.
We're in the business of delivering cars in five minutes, but once you can deliver cars in five minutes, there's a lot of things you can deliver in five minutes.
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.
Having been in the business for a while, I never like to look forward. You kind of enjoy what's happening while it's happening and leave the rest up to God, the angels, the trees, the stars - whatever you want to call it.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.
— Tori Spelling
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
Is safety a business imperative? Yes. But is it also the right thing to do? Yes. And it's important for companies to increasingly find that by doing the right thing, they're fulfilling their business imperative.
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
If I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.
Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.
When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one.
