Quotes About Business

It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say to her, 'Whatever you do, never leave me your business.'

I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business.

Amazon can afford to lose money for years on its fashion offerings. But when, if you're a designer or a retailer, fashion is your bread and butter then you can't.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

Designers may find the fashion business can shrivel up.

A lot of people ask, 'How did you start the business, and how did you do it money-wise?' And the truth is that I had three jobs. A day job, an evening job, and then designing my collection as well. That's just how we did it.

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

We will ensure Arizona continues to grow jobs, not destroy them.

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.

We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That's just not the business that we are in.

The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I'll tell all the details when I'm 50 or 60.

We determine success in the fight business by revenue.

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

I've not had it easy in the past - there have been developmental record deals fall through, and I had a lot of really different scenarios and really had to understand what it means to be a business person and to find your identity as an artist.

I think Apple is a great device company.

I'm devoted to my family and my businesses.

I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

The diamond business has always been secretive.

To me, all business is the same it's just the product that's different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don't market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.

We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

Making new products is an easy tap for a company in a recession.

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.