Quotes About Business

All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

All the film stuff is business. Those are the songs I practise for, rehearse for, make money from.

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

We set out to reinvent the whole business class experience. We went back to re-engineer everything we had thought about and made sleep a priority.

That's what my objective was, to reinvent myself from a console designer to starting a new business and embracing multi-platform, relearning the skills necessary to make successful games. It's been an amazing journey.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.

The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

In my opinion, one of the most exciting potentials of the blockchain relate to creating new business models, whether in public or in private settings. In most of these cases, the new models don't care for incumbents because they are mostly on a disruption quest.

I'm never gonna owe money because every time I get a dollar, I put it into another business, whether it's to buy goods or develop other companies. You don't have money; you have companies. That's one business model. That's mine. And I only associate with other people that are putting up their own money, 'cause they're the only ones that can relate.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

One of my dreams is to become a female entrepreneur with other projects not just related to music.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

I love everything related to business. That's my field, besides entertainment, which I'm really good at.