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.
When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
The business of books is the business of life.
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.
I think I've done a lot in this business, whether through screwball methods or not I don't know, that has helped other bands. I made a kind of road for them, you might say. If I raised my price, they found out about it and raised theirs. But somebody had to start it, to make the first move. You have to have the courage and confidence in your own ability. You have to know what the hell and who the hell you are in this business. Music may change, but I don't think that ever will.
Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.
Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.
If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?
It's the reality of our business.
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.