So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.
The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
If there is one phrase or action that every person on the planet would like to erase from his or her memory or have the chance to undo, it would be, 'Let's do it again.'
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.
I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.