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For me to work with someone, I have to know who I'm working with so I can learn how to deal with each other and try to help each other. At the end of the day, it really just comes down to building a genuine relationship. I think that's a very important factor in business.

I mean, if someone wants to buy a dog that's their business, but I would definitely say adopt, don't shop.

The kinds of things that business partners want you to do to promote your music - a lot of times, it takes precedence over the music itself.

When it comes to my business, I'm a tough guy. If I don't like what I see, it's gonna change.

I got into this business when I was 22 years old, and I didn't have a woke bone in my body. And all I wanted to do was be on screen and for people to pay attention to me, but we evolve and our cause evolves and the conversations today are certainly very different.

You're talking to a guy that graduated from business school by the skin of his teeth, only to crash and burn at his first consulting job. What about that C.V. makes me a good representative of Asian Americans and Canadians?

I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it.

Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.

Football has systematically refused to deal with agents. Instead of regulating them like the mid-2000s, football has loosened control over the business as even more money poured in.

Football's a very unforgiving business.

If you have ambition in football that's the dangerous thing because the ambition will drive you on to make decisions that commercially you might not make in any other business.

Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

'Sir' Richard Branson may be the Julian Assange of British business, in that both believe the world revolves around them. Hence Branson's decision to set up an air service between Manchester and London, above the route of the train line that's been taken from him.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

My whole family is involved in the arts - my sister is a professional Bharatnatyam dancer, and my dad helps me out on the music business end.

My business is creating fame and celebrity, and I'm one of the best in the world. I know it to the finest detail. I reflect what's out there, and if there's a demand for something, I recognise it. I don't think I'm crass. I stand by everything I do.

I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'