Listen if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Like everybody in show business you think you're going to wake up one day and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way everybody in show business - the ones I talk to anyway.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

I want to go out at the top but the secret is knowing when you're at the top it's so difficult in this business your career fluctuates all the time up and down like a pair of trousers.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

Our combination of great research universities a pro-risk business culture deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business like balance sheets and hiring people were new to me.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and instead only give legal status to civil unions.

Treaties agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem what do you do? You quit giving them money.

You know every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business I would have said 'No way.'

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business economic political and social system.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on whereas now you can major in it at business school.

I feel fine I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job I know mine let's go do it.

The movie business is a big gamble.

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent 10 percent to the manager and 5 percent to the lawyer plus the publicist gets a flat fee which needs to be budgeted for.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy and it's serious. It's serious business.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.