Business Constraints Quotes

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

The economic model was formed by the constraints that I had: a small space, relatively inexpensive building materials, relatively inexpensive investment, a very efficient service line or assembly line.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.

I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.

It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

The truth is that the E.U. constrains us in all manner of ways and throws reams of red tape around British businesses.

I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.