From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.
