Quotes About Business

If the government is injecting public money, it should also take the right to oversee board appointments, executive pay, and future business operations.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want to go into business.

Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

Few, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties.

I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.

Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.

The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.

No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

I'm fortunate that I have a female publisher, and her boss is a man of color. My world is a little more diverse, but the majority of the business is not diverse at all.

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'

Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.