I have several writer friends but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

All business proceeds on beliefs or judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.

If you want to have a good life you should focus on your family on your business on your dog on your fun and you'll have a good life.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to run it.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance but nobody laughed.

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you so you're relying on the business.

I find the business world hard.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd haven't you?

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there near my family my kids also the real estate business I run with my wife.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player so when I started to think about opening a business it was with that mindset.

A firm for instance that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time labour and money in providing for translation services.

I've got a wife four kids a business and a baseball career.

In the music business especially the country music business every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard this wave of new artists that comes in.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

If you say 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it ' well then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record I'm just going to cut the things that I like and whoever likes it likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

Energy and environmental regulation transportation and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models products and innovation.

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks search advertising and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.