Joan Rivers Quotes

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.

In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.

I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

We had the controlling shares but we weren’t in control.

Would you please tell Sinclair to go home and let me run the country.

A good paymaster is lord of another man's purse.

Policy bubbles up from the bottom. Decisions are made at the top.

Make Latin America a partner, not a peon.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

I will not take orders from Bob Haldeman and the West Wing. Unless I can take orders from you only, I am going to resign.

I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. They didn't like that. I was the executive producer; I owned the studio where we taped. I decided who went on my show and who didn't.