The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business where they usually want you to play the same character over and over. Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies. That's not the kind of career I want.
The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.
Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.
At Campbell's, we're listening to consumers. We recognize that real and healthier food is better for our consumers and our business. Our goal is to be the leading health and well-being food company.
The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.
I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game.
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.
Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.
I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.
I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.
I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
