I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.
In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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.
I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
What I love to do is take on business challenges in a way that really can have an impact on peoples' lives.
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.
The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun.
