I have become a subscriber for ‘Business Week.’ It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I’m interested in business and learning about how everything works.
I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old.
Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.
My business is to prevent the future.
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable.
I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.
I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.
I’ll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?
I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.
For me, it’s about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something’s going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.
Traditional businesses can say, ‘We’re going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.’ But new business models are hard.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
My candle-making business gives me decent money.
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
As mayor, I’ve traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.’s seaports and airports – because that generates L.A. jobs.
The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it’s a tightrope. It’s a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
Generals aren’t in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President’s decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.
I’ve always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions – I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.
I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
If you can’t turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn’t be in the ad writing business at all.
When you hire in business, you don’t worry about marquee value.
