Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.
People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.
