Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.
I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.
You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.
I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.
It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.
My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.
They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
