“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.” YearsFilmActorsFatherLeftCompanySixSevenUniversityReliefWakingDocumentariesSeven YearsDocumentary Films Author:Sam Neill
“Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.” CompanySuccessfulEconomicsUniversityBackgroundsAdministrationEnterpriseBin Laden Author:Peter Bergen
“We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.” WorldPoliticalTermSimpleLevelsDealsCompanyUniversityCreditEntrepreneurshipDeficitShort TermPolitical SystemsHigh LevelImpeccable Author:Fareed Zakaria
“I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.” ShowsCompanyTrainingUniversityChicagoMimeNorthwesternNorthwestern University Author:Kerry Bishe
“Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.” PeopleGivingRunningCompanyGiving UpTownsIncludingUniversityDebateAtmosphereNever Giving UpSeething Author:George P. Shultz
“I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets. I worked at Clinique in the creative department for a summer during high school. And when I graduated from university, I worked at Prescriptives. My uncle [Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies] smartly had wanted me to go into a small brand - to figure out what part of the company I loved. I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.” WorldChildrenWantedSchoolProcessCompanyCreativeFiguresProductsDevelopmentSummerCreatingHigh SchoolConceptsUniversityPassionateMagazinesBrandsDepartmentCreative ProcessUnclesFragranceChairmanLipstickSampleProduct Development Author:Aerin Lauder