In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term...
In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
