It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill and now hacking is big business.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out where in my writing I might go next.

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

My home has always been show business.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

When they take surveys of women in business of the Fortune 500 the successful women 80% of them say they were in sports as a young woman.

In this business if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Business is tough you need tough guys.

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

According to the Small Business Administration more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Except for politics no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

When a book leaves your hands it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.