- Nov 07, 2020
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On risk, reinvention and the realities of business.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.
- Different Roles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
- Nov 07, 2020
In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within two years, we were in 40-plus countries. So we ran at an amazing pace, and this is where venture capitalists play a role. Making Groupon into what it is today, we had no role in it; the entrepreneurs did it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that scale leads to many possibilities.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020