I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.
The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in France because they conduct the business in a strange way.
You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.
Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
I feel very lucky that I've been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It's so hard to get into.
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
