Quotes About Business

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

If your home market is strong, you can be a strong global player because you have scale and can bring down the cost of production and remain competitive globally. When we started, our home market wasn't strong, so we had to do more business globally.

Rentals are 10% of the sales of luxury brands globally, and we are able to achieve that in India by experimenting with location.

Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

I'm lucky that I was in retailing during the time that I call the golden age of retailing.

Goldfish in Chinese restaurants are there to draw in the gold, the money.

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

I never conduct business on the golf course.

Tuff Gong is the name of our father's enterprise, and we're continuing his legacy.

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

NetSuite was a really good company.

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

This is Staples. On a good day, we get to stay at the Marriott Courtyard. We have a frugal culture.

There are certainly better writers and directors than me, but I have worked very hard to earn credibility within the business as a quality writer and a good director.

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.

If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

Rehabs have become a big business in this country. There are good ones and not-good ones, just like anything else.

A lot of the jewelers - not that they're not good people - but they're hustlers.

Yeah, I had a good relationship with Coach Blatt. I enjoyed playing for him. But the NBA is, first and foremost, a business, and as much as you may have liked the situation you were at, sometimes it just doesn't work out your way.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

It's good, sound business to treat all the teachers fairly, and I think it's a good story to tell.