You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.
I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.
It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.
My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.
They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.
America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.
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.
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.
