I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.
My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.
Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty. . . that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.
Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me. . . Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.
What's everybody's business is nobody's business.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.
I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.
You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen. . . we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.