I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring ou...
I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.
I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. W...
Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it...
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Big business has no party and never shall have.
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries ...
The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole exp...
The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.
I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.
