A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

Leadership is influence.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I love to watch times change!

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

War is the business of barbarians.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

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.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.