Banking is a very treacherous business because you don’t realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
Every successful business professional I know is constantly learning, reading, growing in their field.
My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
It’s been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points… like when I was leaving Stax. That’s when I actually thought of getting out of the business.
Hard work isn’t enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It’s actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else’s vision of me.
Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition.
I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
I studied business in the U.S. and later worked in Dubai.
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.
Fashion advertisers are committed to print. It’s still a growth business, almost as much for the advertisements as the editorial content.
Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I’m a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult – it’s the beast that must be fed. There’s this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
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.
If you’re a single man and you happen to be in this business, you’re deemed a player. But I don’t see myself as a ladies’ man.
I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
If you’re a person who says yes most of the time, you’ll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
