I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

The common question that gets asked in business is 'why?' That's a good question but an equally valid question is 'why not?'

All the business of war and indeed all the business of life is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

I couldn't be an ingenue today because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way or you're ridiculed.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around and you get pinned on it.

Now that women are jockeys baseball umpires atomic scientists and business executives maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

I have laid aside business and gone a'fishing.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business education pro football anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

In the modern world of business it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

That's what show business is sincere insincerity.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician with great business flair and marketing ability.

Follow sound business trends not fashion trends.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible at least on the scale it occurred.

Very few if any first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think 'Well you say I'm a pop star so maybe that's not true.'

In business you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand rather than waiting to have demand.