Quotes About Business

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that.

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

In our film business, they say it's recession-proof, but there's no such thing. I think what it's done is there's been an increase in demand for high-quality product. If you understand the business side of it, there's a way to balance it.

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'

We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy lines around your freedom.

To many in the global community, American business - especially our financial institutions - are seen as a bunch of thieves, and as the saying goes, 'There's no honor among thieves.'

Business has the unique ability to make things happen fast and at scale.

I like to make good things happen for other people. It makes me happy, and I believe it's good for my business as well.

When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

If you have a drug that is $100 for one course of therapy, and you know that you can charge $100,000, what should shareholders think when you say, 'I'd rather not take the heat'?

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.

The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.