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.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.
People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
