Quotes About Business

We'll continue to make doing business easier in Connecticut.

I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

When I first got to L.A., I was shocked at how business was done, and how people... it's like everything I was told not to fall for, I was surrounded by. And it was very difficult for me, because I just didn't like the industry at all.

I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset.

When you're in a business where you're surrounded by celebrity a lot - and I can go into a room and those are a lot of the people that I know, and know very well - that in itself can be intimidating.

I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.

The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

My personal opinion is that when the economy does well, anybody who has a deposit franchise will survive and grow because how can you lend if you do not have a deposit franchise?

It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

Exceptional businesses sustain bottom-line results, which they invest to create meaningful, positive impact for their stakeholders.