You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.
There is nothing similar between the pharmaceutical and textile business.
Textile mills are not a very high-margin business and have fixed overheads, so it was challenging. But I think it is only in challenges that you get opportunities.
My father was into textile painting and ran a small business. He encouraged me a lot and loved seeing my plays.
The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.
For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
Social media, for me, is just a thorn in my side. It's painful. For us in crisis, it has totally changed the way we do business. It's a big, big game changer.
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.
Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
Take the leap. If you love theater more than anything, take the leap. It's so rich if you give over fully to it; there are no halfers or returnsies in this business - if you don't... There's no way to go other than full tilt with your life and job.
If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your child about the virtues of capitalism, the system of government that has lifted more people out of poverty.
Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.
Time is money in the shipping business.
