3 December 2020 Steve Ross You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
3 December 2020 Gary Ryan Blair Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
3 December 2020 Jim Cantalupo You have got to have discipline and focus – on the customer and how you run the business.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.
3 December 2020 Rocco DiSpirito 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.
3 December 2020 Debbi Fields I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
3 December 2020 Evan Esar Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
3 December 2020 Amber Tamblyn I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bezos If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Lopez It’s a real roller-coaster ride if you’re lucky to have longevity in this business – you have to be able to ride those waves.
3 December 2020 Rose Kennedy More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
3 December 2020 Uma Thurman Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It’s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
3 December 2020 Jodi Picoult I have several writer friends, but I don’t involve them in my work process. I’m more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
3 December 2020 John Sununu The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
3 December 2020 Andy Cohen Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, ‘Oh yes, I’m hosting my own show.’
3 December 2020 Vera Wang When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
