Quotes About Business

If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

I know that things change and markets change. Those are the realities of the business.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

I'm not stupid, and the people around me aren't stupid. You can't ignore the economic realities of the ways that business is run and the way clients think.

Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

The world has changed. It's not enough to simply buy American; we have to sell American, sell our products and goods and services throughout this world.

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.

Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more.

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.