And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. 618
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‘tough this and tough that.’ Then there is this business about ‘gooey.’ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist. 640
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises. 599
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’. 933
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. 1.69K
I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it. 570
I’m no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. 1.31K
Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature. 1.29K
I’m trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show. 554
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not. 1.17K
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. 559