Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or a two, you're doing well. Statistically speaking, you throw the dice enough times, you're going to throw a one or a two five times in a row, and you're going to look pretty foolish, right?
— Whitney Tilson
We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.
— Whitney MacMillan
Happy is the small business that can hire additional employees besides the proprietor; rare is the indie-film enterprise that can be happy in this way. The norm is an unpaid principal with no employees between productions.
— Whit Stillman
'Savage' is a trait that might get you into business school or retweeted 10,000 times. It's what a kid might say after somebody does something awesome or gnarly or fierce: 'Oh, that's savage!' It's the skate park. It's the high-school cafeteria. It's the YouTube comments section.
— Wesley Morris
I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for the studios to let me keep working, but you also want those films to have content that makes you proud you made the film. That's not easy, but it's a fun puzzle to figure out.
— Wes Craven
I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.
— Wes Anderson
I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.
— Wentworth Miller
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.
— Wendi McLendon-Covey
Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
— Wayne Rogers
I'm sensitive to the resources needed by a small business to get started and keep going.
— Wayne Messam
Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.
To me, my business is my life.
— Wayne Huizenga
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
— Waylon Jennings
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
— Warren Zevon
Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
— Warren Stephens
The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.
— Warren Spector
Mueller is the leading North American provider of water infrastructure and flow control products - things such as fire hydrants, valves, pipes, fittings, and couplings. While this is no doubt a mundane business, it is also an excellent one.
In my business, you have so many things going at once - TV shows, projects, movies - and sometimes, things never actually come to fruition.
— Whitney Cummings
I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.
— Wesley Snipes
I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
— Wes Montgomery
I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
— Werner Herzog
My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very good genre to me.
I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
— Wendell Phillips
I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
I'm in business to make money. However, I'm a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be a right.
When you hide behind a veil of your financial business you never know who you're influencing, where your priorities lie. But I think it's important that the American people have some glimpse or some understanding of the financial standing of their commander-In-chief.
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.'
My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.
I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.
Lesley Manville comes at 'funny' from a totally different direction in 'Phantom Thread,' using snootiness and froideur. The effect of her performance - as the difficult manager of her difficult brother's couture dress business - stems in part from the chill she puts into her line readings.
The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.
After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
— Wes Bentley
I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo-Saxons such tremendous power that Europe will become a bloc under Anglo-Saxon domination. If that is the case, it will be a very good thing. I wonder whether Stalin will be able to stand up to the others as he has done in the past.
— Werner Heisenberg
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
— Wendy Kopp
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
— Wayne White
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
I'm a business owner.
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
— Wayne Allard
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
— Washington Irving
We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
