The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.

Writing is a lonely business.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The infomercial business has been good to me.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

The primary goal of IoT is to solve business problems, not to deliver a cool project or new technology. Focus on a business-relevant problem, and work with your customer to solve it.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of time.

Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.

I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.