Quotes About Business

Markets don't allow you to hang about.

I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little. My parents thought I would change my mind. My boyfriends always think I'm going to change my mind, but it never happened. I fall in love with my businesses.

In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy?

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

The music is the easy part. The business is the hard part.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

There are a lot of things in business that are completely out of your control, but hard work isn't one of them.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

The hardest part about this business is being away from the kids. But what I hope to teach him - and what I hope to teach all kids that are kind of looking at this - is that to achieve anything, it takes a lot of sacrifice.

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.