Jon Stewart Quotes

CNBC was completely in the dumper when I went there.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are - that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas... everything they do just is a failure.

You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

Things didn't quite work out at Manchester United for various reasons, but that's in the past.

The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'

When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.

The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

Every year I try to pitch a show, and I try to do something outside of YouTube, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.