Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.
I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.
Get busy living or get busy trying. Life will move forward with or without you. The question is; will you move forward in life without yourself?
I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.
I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
