The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.
Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
