Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
I have no time to judge anyone because I am so busy to love everyone.
Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.
Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
