Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy.

I buy when other people are selling.

Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.

Most of the people I know in the film business here in New York, the moms and the dads, just take different turns working. So everybody's a working parent, and nobody bats an eyelash at it.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works.

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.

To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.

I believe that currency trading should not be a business at all.

When you are married to a guy who takes chances every day, who loves risk and has great intuition and great business instincts - when you're married to someone like that who pushes you to dream big, you dream big.

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

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.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

Our institutional framework needs to be bolstered further. We have to implement laws like the proposed Bankruptcy Code and GST (Goods and Services Tax), which will create efficiencies and strongly support the business environment.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that's my career, but it's not my life.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Business is in itself a power.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

I'm not a kid trying to make an impression in the business. I do have 600 films out there that are playing constantly.