The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens Georgia and managed to get on um working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business football manager or prime minister but rather: bus driver.
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent 10 percent to the manager and 5 percent to the lawyer plus the publicist gets a flat fee which needs to be budgeted for.
I am a sensitive writer actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business call my disgusting personal manager.
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent interpersonal relationships.
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.