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.
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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.
You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.
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.
I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.
A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.
The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.
Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
