Quotes About Business

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.

Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

All the design companies together make 10% of what Ikea makes.