The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks search advertising and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution yellow-pages directories landline telephones and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is I haven't got any other business interests.
If an Internet company steals content they shut it down. And let me tell you Apple France Yahoo France or Google France none of them have gone out of business.
I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business so I was never interested in that world.
I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.
The business is a very tricky obstacle course and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working you're not interesting.
All those lessons that I've learned on the court I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business my company called V Starr interiors an interior design company and EleVen which I wear on court.
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest the higher the rate of profit required.