When I started Mediaite, I didn't expect it to become the business that it's become.
I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.
I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake
'PKP' was a huge success, and even the sequel did well. I became very choosy after that.
When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.
I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.
I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.
I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.
Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.
This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
I have my own production house, which is doing good.
It was Barry Diller's idea to start 'The Daily Beast,' and he has turned out to be the best partner I've ever had. There's no one better to go into the jungle with.
I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.
I built a company, a team, and a brand that started right here. It was an American success story, and it started right here in Arizona.
I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.
I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.
Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.
I feel blessed to be working with a banner like Dharma Productions.
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
When Mike Hammond and I started Gateway 12 years ago on my father's cattle farm, we knew it could be big. We talked big. But there's no way we could have been prepared to go from less than $300 million in revenues to $5 billion in six years. You can't so much prepare for that kind of growth as sort of ride it and try to manage it.
I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.
