Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.
I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.
I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.
I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
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.
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
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.
Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
