“I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.” ThinkingKnowsLongJobsTermDealsCompanyStageRepublicanSizeProfitCurrentsTeethCashVentureShort TermRomneyStaples Author:David Stockman
“The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.” IfsPassionActorsCompanyStageManagersBetter OffToo Cool Author:Stella Adler
“I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.” DifferentWholeActorsChanceActingCompanyRolesComedyFocusStageHavensTypeTragedyIntentionGenreEtcJumpingReservationsDifferent GenresStage Actors Author:Kyle MacLachlan
“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.” LongParentActingCompanyCareersPlayerFeetLandStageIndiaEnglandPerformingCourtesyUp And Down Author:Felicity Kendal
“This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so riveting. And I'm seeing this and I said, 'My God, this is a musical revolution.'” SaidSoulBigsWhiteCompanySeeingGroupsStageBrotherRevolutionMusicalSingersWhirling Dervish Author:Clive Davis
“Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.” CompanyStageInvestmentValuationGreat Company Author:Ben Horowitz
“I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.” IfsDoneHappensCommunityBusinessCompanyStageFoundationScalesFirmCyclesWhat IfMassiveServingInitiativeVentureAmazedEquityIntegratedPhilanthropicEmployingVenture Capital Book:The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy Source: The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy
“While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.” NeedsFeelsTryingCompanyStageMy TimeMakersInvestorsCapitalistVentureConferencesVenture CapitalistsConference Calls Author:Brad Feld
“I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.” IfsWantFirstsStillsI CanShowsTogetherDiesNamesMy OwnCompanyStageTvsRight NowProjectsProductionsTv ShowsFunny Or DieTeaming Up Author:Dave Franco
“Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.” MeanGovernmentCompanySupportRiskStageResearchAreasInvestingFinancingGreat RiskBasic Research Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.” YearsDifferentCitiesCompanyStageRadioStationsTorontoSecond City Author:Rick Moranis
“I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.” PeopleThinkingFilmMovingNumbersCompanyFocusStageTalentTelevisionStartingDeeperMoving ForwardContinuingInfluentialHeadingsPlaygroundsIntersectionsHboFilm And Television Author:Colin Callender
“My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'” WorldYearsFirstsSchoolJobsCompanyClearStageDramaTrainingStoresTheatreManagersInchesRatsAssistantsPropsStage Managers Author:Martin Shaw