Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

My father told me, never have partners.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There's great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look.

The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.

Like a lot of business owners out there, I don't desire to face the continual flogging from government regulators who push burdensome and confusing state tax and employment laws on the business. It creates an unnecessary risk when, as an owner, I can just take it offshore.

Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.