Quotes About Business

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.

Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

When you hire in business, you don't worry about marquee value.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

Uber has a lot of money, and they've hired a lot of good people, and they have the capacity to professionalize.

If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.

Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule.

I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

Sitting on a corporate board is a hobby for me.

You can't forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.

There's a lot of guys who use their likeness - to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I'm making product, it's a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one's making a Coke can. I'm the guy that's trying to make the Coke can.

I go on holiday abroad two or three times a year, then through work I'm away another couple of times.

Diving into data has never been more critical for businesses in order to make fast, accurate decisions about customer behaviors and needs and drive holistic business knowledge.

Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.