Quotes About Business

'Entrepreneur' is a French word.

I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.

Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.

The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.

In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.

Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.

I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.

We understand in this sport, of course, people will develop friendships. But at the same time, in our business, you'll fight, and we're OK with that.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.

Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building with your customers.

While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.