In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously
Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt to try, I think, to penetrate, that's how I found out as a teenager what was going on, was by sneaking into drawers and reading letters that I had no business reading.
In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation
This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing. . . . I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.
The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.
I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.
I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single terrorist act. Those are the seven [Donald Trump] banned. But, you leave the ones that really are responsible, like Saudi Arabia, which is the center for propaganda and funding and so on for radical Islamic Jihadism, well you can't touch them because of business interests, also they have oil and so on and so forth.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
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 really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.
I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.