Steven Spielberg Quotes

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

The business end of business has never interested me.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Aaron Sorkin has been incredibly good to me; I don't know that I would have an acting career without him. Thanks to him, people think I'm smart and nice, but I'm neither.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

You're taught from a very young age that you shouldn't get too big for your britches, so I tend to err way too much on the side of 'Nothing means anything.'

My expertise is running businesses.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

He [Clement Attlee] is a modest little man with much to be modest about.

I'm probably the least famous of any guy who's worked as much as I have.

I've been around a lot of artists who are also good at business, and... one minute they'll sound like an artist, and the next minute, they'll sound like the characters in 'Mad Men.' Jay-Z's a very good businessman, and he talks about it and enjoys it, but he doesn't shift.

I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.