Quotes About Business

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.

Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.

Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company's profitability and reputation.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.