Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.
In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation.
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'
