Quotes About Business

Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and I've largely avoided meeting hideous people in the street. Most people tend to be charming.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn't matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.

You got to be receptive to change, and everything changes, including our business.

No one saw the recession coming.

Experience shows that a recession is never the result of just a few large industries dragging the economy down while the others continue to expand.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion as it is for a five- or six-year-old expansion.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.

The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.

I had this dream of starting a pizza business since college. I came up with the name, menu, and recipes back then.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

The government must recognise that taxing retailers differently is reckless.

It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.

I don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a show business.

Government has learned a lot from the business world - and I hope that some companies will recognise they can learn from each other, too.