You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time’s going to come when you go back down. 2.27K
You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work. 625
The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that’s changing. It happened to the music industry and now it’s happening to the film studios. It’s crazy what’s going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea. 560
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn’t doing this I’d be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. 594
Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That’s an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no. 556
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don’t really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don’t really have very high, cultured conversations. 890
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. 560
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career. 595
In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap. 2.43K
I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions. 1.29K
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism. 685
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It’s not going to put any other type of movies out of business. 2.08K
I still work hard to know my business. I’m continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I’m always selling. Always. 525
The forgotten man… He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. 541
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. 575
When I’ve gone back to work, it’s always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it’s the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can’t avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. 760
Any work that’s worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That’s true if you’re running a business, it’s true if you’re trying to help on a campaign. 692
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I’m extremely undisciplined person. 532
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things. 1.57K