I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, “You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.” As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
War is the business of barbarians.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.
Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early ’70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
Everything about it worked, and I don’t mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there’s also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.
See, I’m fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.
That’s my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.