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.
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.
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've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.
