I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
If you really want to see more work that reflects your values, you have to produce it. You have to be a contributor to the business.
Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialog...
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company...
The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic enginee...
As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives...
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.
It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this coun...
Work done by other people sounds easy. How hard can it be to take care of a newborn who sleeps 20 hours a day? How hard can it be to keep track of your billable hours? To travel for one night for business? To get a 4-year-old ready for school? To ret...
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
