By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. 1.41K
You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times. 726
I’m not a kid. You don’t get in this business for anonymity. It’s not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I’m kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family – their privacy. That’s what I’m more protective of. 704
Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. 658
It’s the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it’s running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. 736
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business. 668
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, ‘Don’t you want to have a normal job and a normal family?’ I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. 793
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. 2.51K
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work. 699
It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk. 684
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. 765
Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it. 697
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all. 679
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there’s less and less time for songwriting. 2.56K
Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn’t always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company’s core business. 718
Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities – and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today? 647
Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That’s what the music business does to you. That’s what capitalism does to you. 647
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. 694
