Quotes About Business

I am a bad businessman who would make a bad producer.

All businessmen are scum.

I have two sons. Good sons. They're both businessmen.

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.

Trump bankrupted six companies but succeeded on the biggest of stages. He is the champion of failures.

We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil.

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn't.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.