It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.
I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?
I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
