Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.
The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
My reasons for getting into the entertainment business weren't entirely selfless. Hollywood as an industry can at times be insular and doesn't understand the market very well. I saw an opportunity in that fact.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
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.
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world.
Anybody who can improve the business in the long run is a good buyer.
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
I hate the word 'break.' It's just a business deal at the end of the day so there's no such thing as giving a break.
We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
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.
If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.
All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.