I feel very strongly that you shouldn’t mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don’t mix them with my business.
The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.
Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone’s co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.
I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
It’s easy not to bribe. But it’s not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
Elites want to cut taxes and stop government regulation of business. Evangelicals want to make America a Christian nation. And alt-right voters want to purge the rights of minorities and women.
Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That’s a risk that business people take.
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure – and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
I’ve had many failures in terms of technological… business… and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
The No. 1 country in the world to do business in is which one? To locate where you want to create jobs, where you want to have a great market? It’s Canada. Even in Russia, you can build a Silicon Valley outside of Moscow.
Kids really take you out of yourself, and your priorities become really clear. With acting and the business, you don’t really have priorities. You have no idea what each day or week’s going to be like.
I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.
I think the moment that I’m very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people’s perception of how you can do luxury fashion.
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
I’ve come across people who look smart in a suit who haven’t really got a lot underneath. Football is an unforgiving business and you’re easily found out if you’re a bit of a fraud.
Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.
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.
I’ve learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.
When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you’ve invested, all the projects you’ve tried before that didn’t work.
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
