Quotes About Business

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

I learned that fashion was about more than fancy images. That there was a business side as well.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.

It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.

There's no one better to imitate than Carly Fiorina when it comes to a successful woman.

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company Ive ever seen.

I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.

What I love to do is take on business challenges in a way that really can have an impact on peoples' lives.

What I tell business leaders is you're in the space industry - you just don't know it yet. Every industry will be impacted by space. The internet would not exist without space-based communication.

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.

I definitely think it's important for a CEO of any large corporation to understand how policy impacts their business and be aware of the decisions being made in Congress.

Cultivating diversity in all its forms - of our content, products, and people - is one of our most important business imperatives.

Diversity, I think, has become a real business imperative at the very top with CEOs who are facing massive disruption.

Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government - it is very clear.

I would say that things like the head tax in Seattle I think are super dangerous for cities to implement. What company is going to want to start - or move to or grow in - a city that penalizes them for hiring full-time employees?

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

The PC is an important part of our business and will continue to be for a long, long time.