Quotes About Business

By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

For Maersk Line, it is never great to compete with somebody who, by definition, can't go bankrupt.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

I wanted to understand the business side of entertainment, and that's why I decided to complete my MBA while I was in Delhi.

I could sell more franchises than I'm selling right now, but we're pretty deliberate about where we're going.

Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.

The issue of access to growth capital is common to all entrepreneurs. Any entrepreneur who can demonstrate a credible business model and plan would be able to access to capital.

We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.

The reality in business and in 'Dragons' Den' is you win some, and you lose some.

Dragons' Den' is about as close to real business as you can get on television.

But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did.

What I'm denying is that I'm this cutthroat financier.

There is no room for politics in the Commerce Department.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working. I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people. I've spent a lot of years getting to know people in the business, and that really helps. It depends. You can have some pretty terrible auditions.

Salespeople are in the decision business. Their livelihood depends on the decisions of others.

Success begets success in terms of customer deployments and having truly happy customers.

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

Design has always been at the heart of our business.