Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.