50 Quotes by Bill Kurtis

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.