No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.
Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film.
The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.
Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.
There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.
One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.
I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.
We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.
I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn't have the money to go!
