You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.
There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
I am so busy being kind today that I have no time to complain.
I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choo...
I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.
I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work.
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4....
I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.
The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
