Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. 577
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers. 594
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. 618
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable. 2.73K
Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of. 598
There’s a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles. 533
It’s wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn’t all about me. 549
I’m quitting the business today. I’m going to open up an appliance store, I’ve always really been into toasters. I’m giving it all up. 594
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. 834
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different. 1.83K
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it. 544
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you’re in an eight-mile race, you never give up. 1.32K
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career. 608
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. 630
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They’ll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. 542
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. 1.29K