In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.
I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.
I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.
Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.
Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.
The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.
We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
