Quotes About Business

Presidents must be willing to fight for American jobs and should set a central goal of federal policy of creating an environment that rewards companies for investing here and discourages them from moving abroad.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

Remember, don't let the pressures of doing business get in the way of what doing business is truly about: building relationships with people.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

Women - whether in politics, media or business - can't have it both ways. We can't demand to be judged irrespective of our gender if we also plan to manipulate our sexual identity to our advantage. We can't both play the game and pretend to be sitting it out. We can't deliberately act 'female' and complain about male bias.

When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're pretending you're writing things off that you don't.

I'm fascinated by people who can keep who they are in the midst of this business, which is all about not only pretending to be other people, but also that perception of who you are and how successful you are and your standing in the business.

I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

I'm not going to negotiate with Brazil for its pretty face. I'm going to negotiate with Brazil because they're going to open their car-manufacturing market.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data.

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

Every company today is a data company whether they realize it or not.

SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

We make it very clear, we don't want our fans to say over-the-line things. But if someone is saying, 'I can't wait for Dave Portnoy to go out of business,' I don't care if our fans say, 'You're the worst.'

A big endorsement deal would be awesome.