Quotes About Business

It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range.

I may not be in the office as much as I was at the start of the business but when a new range is launched - and we have two, a spring/summer and an autumn/winter collection - each year, all designs come through me first to make sure I am happy with them.

I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.

We all know this is a pretty intense business. There's a lot that happens, a lot that goes on here. Just like any other job, you want to be happy, and once you've gained that respect, you want to be treated with that type of respect.

I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S phone and the extent to which it appeared to copy Apple products and the problems that would create for us.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

Pay-per-view is bit of a gamble.

No one knows which film will be a hit or flop. Film making is a gamble.

You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

Our customers' business interests are heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry.

Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.

I mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

We spend crores of rupees in the business of production but it is very rare to find a human being like Salman. He is a gem of a person.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

I want to be the first boxer to generate a billion dollars.

Successful shows will always generate great business deals in the future.

I don't know another Philippine company that has lasted three generations, except for Ayala. Maybe Aboitiz is going to the third.

I came from an entrepreneurial family. My father and five generations of people in my family do not make good employees.