Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.
Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question. In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, “what made him pull that trigger?” Bravo on a marvelous achievement.
You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.
We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.