Quotes About Business

William Clay Ford, Jr.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

I'm a cash flow guy. If it doesn't make me money today, forget about it.

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.

Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.

We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

I worked the bar business in Fort Lauderdale.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

I can sit across the table from somebody that worked with me and my company that I founded and say, 'Here are five things I don't like about what you're doing, and we have to fix it.'

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

Deciding whether or not to bring in an outside CEO is one of the most gut-wrenching decisions that a founder will ever need to make.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

Founders, presuming they know their customers, assume they know all the features customers need.

Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

We have more corporations in Florida than the next four states combined. Why is that? Because it's easy.