Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
