Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.
It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
