Quotes About Business

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

I didn't want to be a retailer. I hated to wait on people.

Sharmell was the first woman that I thought about talking to, and if you listen to Sharmell, she thought I hated her the first time we met because I was always all business.

I have lots of business outside of the Octagon, and I'm looking to have fun.

You know, we're in this business to have fun and entertain.

It's a game to be enjoyed. For us, it's also a business - it's a job. But you play better when you're having fun.

I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

Marketing is a major headache for farmers.

I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.

It's safe to say headphones is a good business.

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

Over the years, we have gone beyond our businesses to take up philanthropic projects in diverse areas - from education to health care to skilling.

There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.

23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

Making important medicine more available and affordable is a great thing for the country, and Netmeds is one the mainstays in the space. They have a long legacy in the pharma business, and they are making it easier for people to stay healthy.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

When you face the shareholders, then you can feel the heat is on you. For 20 years I got to answer to my shareholders. It's not easy.

My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.