I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.
The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.
Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online.
Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the...
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to a...
Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.
Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations.
My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challen...
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I audi...
If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.
