Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise
I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.
Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame. . . I'm all about mystery.
You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.
We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.
When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.
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.
One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.
. . . treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.
Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.
Never invest in a business you don't understand.
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
You've got to spend a little money to make a little money.
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.