The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.
I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast.
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.
I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
