We'll continue to take the right actions to make sure we're a profitable business.
The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world. As we've brought our franchises into eSports and moved to digital delivery, it's become even more complex and exciting - which, in turn, has allowed us attract even more top talent.
We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.
I'm not into business at all.
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses, and agile engineering to build minimum viable products.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
I think DVD has been a real gold mine for a lot of reasons. You were selling a packaged good in a big mass market, so you could make it huge. You were selling or renting a thing that people didn't consume. You go to Blockbuster, rent five movies, and only watch two. That's a good business to be in.
Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.
All the lessons I learned from my grandfather from the day I was born until the day he passed away served me well, and I think about them and use them every day. It was much more valuable than any business school could have provided.
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.
I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
More and more businesses are seeing the potential of a more sustainable business model, driven both by the firm belief that business can be a force for good and by the realization that the cost of inaction often exceeds the cost of action - notably when it comes to the growing threat of climate change and water scarcity.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.