Quotes About Business

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.

Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That's probably a little less true with business audiences, but in general, there tends to be this view that for-profit companies are greedy, and nonprofits are noble. It's absolutely more complicated than that.

'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.

We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, 'No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics.'

Tennis is more commercial these days.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

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