Profit maximisation — An attempt to make as much profit as possible in a given time period

Profit satisficing

What are some characteristics of an entreprenuer?

What are important entrepreneurial skills?

What are the financial reasons people set up a business?

What are the non-financial reasons people set up a business?

We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear

So often there are crossroads in your life, when things can go right or horribly wrong. We never know when something we say or do will turn a person's life around.

I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone.

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.

On a bad day I have mood swings but on a good day I have the whole mood playground.

Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.