I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. 690
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. 2.2K
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine. 1.62K
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. 1.4K
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You’re trying to make them laugh. They can’t laugh at someone they’re looking up to. 1.39K
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business. 1.28K
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There’s always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. 2.43K
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. 652
Although I’m a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing… but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything. 2.53K
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. 685
The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. 915
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded. 1.29K
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven’t been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me. 842
