• I felt trapped. I was under the thumb of people who were mostly interested in keeping me doing exactly the same thing. But I’m not blaming anyone. You learn fast in this business and, once I knew where I wanted to go, I didn’t let anyone get in my way.
  Christina Aguilera Quotes
• I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• Japanese kids reinvent themselves every summer, and in a way, Virgin does, too. Any successful business has to, who has been coming to Japan since the early '70s. My first trip really opened my eyes. I was given a plate of raw fish and the only thing I got up enough courage to eat was the wasabi.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• Find ways of improving the business that are beyond your own realm of responsibility.
  Andrew Carnegie Quotes
• To continue much longer overwhelmed by business cares and with most of my thoughts wholly upon the way to make more money in the shortest time, must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery. I will resign business at thirty-five, but during the ensuing two years I wish to spend the afternoons in receiving instruction and in reading systematically.
  Andrew Carnegie Quotes
• A corporate culture, like the human body, is an ecosystem of interdependent relationships. If we seek quality with something other than a principle-centered approach on all four levels, our efforts will be necessary but insufficient.
  Stephen Covey Quotes
• I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
  Cameron Diaz Quotes
• I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
  Cameron Diaz Quotes
• I’ve been in the business since I was 16, so I’ve had a 14-year career. I’ve always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.
  Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
• A lot of actors ask me “what do you do? How do you get into the business?” My only answer is don’t be discouraged. … You have to commit your life to it, almost, and never give up. It’s a cliché, but it’s true.
  Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
• I’ve always kind of made sure to maintain the sense of who I am and never be mean or cruel or snotty to anyone. Because, at the end of the day, it's not going to help you last in the business, and who wants to be around someone like that? I don't want to turn into ‘that guy.’ That guy!
  Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
• I think it’s a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, “Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?” That’s really how I choose roles.
  Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
• I think, especially in our business, we meet a lot of people and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers… So, you know, just keep a clear head [and] be nice to each other.
  Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes
• I agree that many people have had to break or are breaking laws within the boundaries of their business that exist there and ethical conventions that exist here. I was able to avoid that, and still be successful in business.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art that could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair that provides relaxation from fatigue.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour..
  James Packer Quotes
• The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
  Kerry Packer Quotes
• There's a professor from Yale, Professor [Jeffrey] Sonnenfeld. He says the real workplace doesn't use sex appeal. And I say, you'd better stay a professor and not go into business! The fact is, there are certain women who are able to use sex appeal to win. Because I'm such a diplomat, I want to say to never use it. But the fact is, life is loaded with it.
  Donald Trump Quotes
• I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
  Donald Trump Quotes
• We will have to see how busy my business keeps me. For now, I see myself continuing to model indefinitely. I really enjoy it.
  Alek Wek Quotes