I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.
With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.
A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
Zefr has all the ingredients for success - dynamic, inspiring management, the ability to marry technology and content, and a business model that can scale. I'm thrilled to be part of the team.
Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
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 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.
