My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
In this business you either sink or swim or you don’t.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
I just respect people and mind my business. I don’t got time to worry about what the next man’s pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
I’m fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it’s so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
When I’m at home, I don’t discuss business. I don’t talk business. I don’t answer the phone. It’s just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That’s my world.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don’t make money from as a cost.
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it’s the patience of a marathon runner.
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I’m researching and writing.
Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.
I feel I’ve done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn’t do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what’s going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I’ll become an overnight sensation.
Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best – I suggest to you – move in the opposite direction.
I’m trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
For a very long time, I wasn’t thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Everybody is tramping through the swamp every day in this business. ‘I’m worth it, I’m credible – believe me, give me a shot!’ That’s the way I feel on a consistent basis.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.
I am interested in a lot of things – not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what’s going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don’t have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don’t sit and vegetate.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
Employers have recognized for some time that it’s smart business to have a diverse workforce – one in which many views are represented and everyone’s talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.
If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I’d be a rich man right now.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.
The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.
Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that’s just making another artist, my clothing line – capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that – capitalizing off every move I make.
School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Business can be a source of progressive change.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself.
Your billion-dollar ideas don’t show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.
John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there’s something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they’re not terribly proud of, but that’s how you learn.
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I’m abroad.
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.
