Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.
If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
