America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.
I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that scale leads to many possibilities.
I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.
It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
