When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.
In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.
I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.
What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'
