Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4....
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for ...
There are no rebels in the cinema business.
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.
State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.
I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.
That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.
The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illi...
I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.
In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I...
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agree...
I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
