Quotes About Business

Most people don't realize how regulated the pawn industry is, especially where I'm at in Nevada.

It's like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.

I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.

Most of those who pawn things and want to borrow money don't want to be on television. That part of my business you don't see, and I do five or 10 times as much.

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'

Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.

I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.

I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business.

You can't operate a business running at a loss, and particularly if you're doing it by paying yourselves. It just doesn't fly.

We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers?

I'm in the position where I don't have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that's what I choose to do. I guess I've earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps.

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.

Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.

PayPal is a strong business: it has a strong balance sheet and free cash flows, and it will help us take a look at where we want to independently invest.

I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll.