Quotes About Business

When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.

If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "academic finance." Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.

I'm so not a financial person.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

I happen to love financial services.

I am a woman who, you know, I run my own business. I don't need a man financially, for anything, but just to be a companion.

I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

I was fortunate enough to set myself up financially and do business things.

I think I feel that way - that filmmaking is a responsibility, not only creatively but also financially in that it's a business. You can't forget that.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

There's always a fine line between 'What is the market going to bear?' and, 'By the way, I've got 2,000 unsold seats.'

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

Marketing is selling an ad to a firm. So, in some sense, a lot of marketing is about convincing a CEO, 'This is a good ad campaign.' So, there is a little bit of slippage there. That's just a caveat. That's different from actually having an effective ad campaign.

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

I'm a firm believer in the circle of commerce.

I am a businessman because I am good at business. But big cats are my first love.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'

There's a misconception that, as you have success with a band for a long time, things get easier, and that's not necessarily true. It's harder to keep connecting with that fire that got you started in the first place when you're amongst all the politics in the business, and just having a little bit of that looming pressure.