Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.
I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.
One cannot forget that show business also deals with humans. Everything is not so superficial that this is rigged or planned. Sometimes people do fall in love with each other because they spend a lot of time on the sets so much so the set becomes your first home, and your actual home becomes your second home.
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.
I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.
I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.
Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.
When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.
Longer and more frequent delays for international passengers at Bush will only cede business to Houston's competitors - and the jobs that go along with it.
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win.
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.
Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.