It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.