That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

I like to work.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

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.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

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

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

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.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.