My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can rend...
Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.
I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.
The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.
I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.
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 suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
E-mails are the cancer of modern business.
If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.
I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.
In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.
When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out...
Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly.
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
