Quotes About Business

We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Over time "Pikers" became accepted as a term that referred to people who were slow of speech, plodding, and not ambitious in business.

transition to mechanisms for getting to scale, fast. The business that has been protected from conventional disciplines (such as producing return on investment)

managers with a different mind-set start to become more important, and the business needs to become part of the parent corporation.

So even in firms that embrace change and appear to manage it well, there are elements of tremendous stability in their businesses.

growth platforms." Each platform was given a specific broad domain that it could pursue, regardless of where the assets and people happened to be located within a particular business.

The very concept of "industry" is an artificial categorization. Often the most important competition any business will face is from entrants who are not hamstrung by assumptions about what their "industry" expects of them.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

The world's most deadly fluff is: "I would definitely buy that." It just sounds so concrete. As a founder, you desperately want to believe it's money in the bank. But folks are wildly optimistic about what they would do in the future. They're always more positive, excited, and willing to pay in the imagined future than they are once it arrives.

In short, remember that compliments are worthless and people's approval doesn't make your business better.

Good customer segments are a who-where pair. If you don't know where to go to find your customers, keep slicing your segment into smaller pieces until you do.

Allen, and Peter Sells of Dublin, Ohio. By 1878 they had added additional performers and tents and were traveling by railroad. In the early 1880s the circus was enjoying excellent business wherever it went.

S. William Pattis founded and served as Chairman/CEO of NTC Publishing Group from 1961 until 1996, when the firm was acquired by Tribune Company (NYSE). NTC published

Wallace with an investment of $5,000; Time, started on a shoestring in 1923 by Henry Luce and his partner Briton Hadden; and The New Yorker, the creation of editor Harold

I've been in this business long enough to have acclaim and disclaim, and to know the acclaim means no more than the disclaim.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders.

Fifty years ago, when General Motors was the largest employer in America, the typical GM worker earned $35.00 an hour in today's dollars. By 2014, America's largest employer was Walmart, and the average hourly wage of Walmart workers was $11.22.

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Forgive me this digression that I stand Entranced awhile at Law's first beam, outbreak O' the business, when the Count's good angel bade "Put up thy sword, born enemy to the ear, "And let Law listen to thy difference!" And Law does listen and compose the strife, Settle the suit, how wisely and how well! On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault, Law bends a brow maternally severe, Implies the worth of perfect chastity, By fancying the flaw she cannot find.

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people.