There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
In the 1970s, Japan moved into the U.S. turf with its televisions, cars, chips, and steel. But if you think about it, the only business Japan destroyed was the U.S. television industry.
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on 'Felicity' that was modeled after me, actually.
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.
Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
