I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
I’ve always said it ain’t ‘Show Friends.’ It’s ‘Show Business.’
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
I think that’s what happened to the record business when ‘Napster’ came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
It wasn’t so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I’d get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.
Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.
Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently – business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.
I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.
Don’t be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don’t expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
Founders are often great storytellers because they’re in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.
If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that’s when you become the enemy.
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there’d be celestial-mechanics jokes.
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.
In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.
But we have to ask ourselves, what’s the purpose of the stock market? It’s supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It’s lost that purpose.
