I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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.
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.
Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.
I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.
It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.