Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet the world we live in has changed and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize okay if I really focus and become a key player in business then I can build an empire.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business get in the film business.

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work you should try and trick it up a bit.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business about music and about myself. Its exciting.

I was bullied as a kid and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business which regions which industries will succeed which will not through a whole range of economic development regional development corporate subsidization programs.

I have pretty thick skin and I think if you're going to be in this business if you're going to be an actor or a writer you better have a thick skin.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts go eccentric even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business football manager or prime minister but rather: bus driver.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

My view is that you still in order to win from the Labour perspective have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

The monarchy is foremost a business and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

A lot of people including business leaders think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

By 1969 when I celebrated 45 years in the music business I also had 45 people in our musical family.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.