I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.
For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.
Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.
If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate religion and corporate self-image that makes it very difficult for them to execute in different areas.
Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
