I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone - business, government, and nonprofits - needs to play a role.
Throughout the health-insurance reform process, we have had a frequent and consistent dialogue with the business community - small, medium, and large - to analyze and evaluate the impact that reform would have on them. It has been a very instructive and productive dialogue.
Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad.
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
It's nice to be able to, you know, for me to be able to personally do whatever the heck I feel like, whether I think that I can justify it exactly in business concerns or not.
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
I'm a professional athlete. I've been paid since I was in my early 20s to go out there and fight with guys who were 40 or 50 pounds heavier than I am and fight for my life. I got into a business where people make decisions based on some of the most stupid things.
This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.
Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India.
I think it might be nice to date someone not in the business.
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.