Quotes About Business

I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.

A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

I started my first business out of my college dorm room - DJ Connection - and grew it to more than 4,000 events per year. Sounds easy, but while doing that, I made every mistake in the book.

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.

At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.

I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts - he's a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That's another $100 million per year, easy.

In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.

I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

People say Facebook connects the world. Facebook has 5,000 Ph.D.s that think about how to make you click on ads you don't want to see. Their business model is about something that most people would not perceive as making the world better.

We tend to perceive Hollywood as an industry that is trying to mitigate risk more and more.

We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a consideration when we decided to invest in Shriram Group.

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

I've been put in multiple boxes as blogging and as an influencer and not really perceived as a businesswoman, and that's something that I've really had to grow into.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

The UFC makes about 99 percent of the money, and the rest goes to the fighters. That one percent ain't nothing compared to what they make on merchandising, on pay-per-view, and everything else they make around the world.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.