The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'
Designers may find the fashion business can shrivel up.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
There are no rebels in the cinema business.
I'm not an Internet guy - I'm a business guy.
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
It's clear that the small business tax credit created under the Affordable Care - while well-intentioned policy - can be improved to better serve the needs of small businesses.
The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.
But this is called show business, not show family.
You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that.
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.
A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.
It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.
When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.
The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.
I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.
You can't regulate a soul into a business.
You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.
Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever.
My job, originally, was to write blog posts for their 'HubSpot' blog. They have a business model built on content. Then I was writing e-books for them, and after I came back from L.A., they had this new plan to launch a podcast.
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.
My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.
When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.