If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.
I strongly believe that for the steel prices to be market-driven, without distortions, we need to substantially increase the production capacity.
The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.
We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'.
I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.
There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.
What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.
There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.
