Quotes About Business

I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.

China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.

The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice.

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

I have my Icy brand, so one day when I do have the time I'll create my own fashion line.

When I first got pitched on Uber, I thought it was the dumbest idea ever.

I had so many local shows before I came back to New York, which is the ideal place to do a national syndicated show. Then I spent five years trying to convince people to give me a shot in the syndication business.

Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. You need to figure out what your ideal lifestyle is first.

I'm committed to creating an ideal environment for commerce and letting the world know that Alabama is open for business.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace.

Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result.

It is critical to create opportunities to identify talented women in business, then support them to develop their confidence to aim for the boardroom.

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.

There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We're not on our game.

All businesses should have an element of social enterprise, and all social enterprises should not ignore the most important lessons from successful commercial businesses.

I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I've believed that my whole life, and my experience as a businessperson for 30 years was if you ignore the sound and fury, American democracy works if you give it enough time.

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.

We started CapitalSource because large banks were ignoring small to mid-sized businesses, and we saw a big business opportunity as a result.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

Some hotels are trying to dig their feet in and trying to say that Airbnb shouldn't exist - that 'illegal hotels' shouldn't exist. And, of course, illegal hotels shouldn't exist. But when they say illegal hotels, sometimes they mean anything that's not a hotel.