Quotes About Business

I have spent 25 years battling to tell people that business is important. People aren't prepared to understand that it's a complex piece of machinery.

Crowdpac is what I'm passionate about. I want to see it develop and grow, and I'm not really thinking anything except a long-term future for this business - but more importantly, for what this business can do for the long-term future of America.

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.

With the globalization, it's difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

I'm not a kid trying to make an impression in the business. I do have 600 films out there that are playing constantly.

Anybody who can improve the business in the long run is a good buyer.

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

That is football. In the end, all clubs spend money.

There's only so much stuff you can buy. I have to retail the stuff. Stuff that's really really weird - it's cool, but who are you going to sell it to? I do collect some stuff. In the end, I have to run a business.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

We must give young people and others who cannot find a job a direct and clear incentive to create one for themselves by starting a business.

When I fly to European destinations, I always fly economy; I don't fly business class - there is no advantage apart from a few more inches of room.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.

Employers' national income is a particular disincentive to employ because it is an expense without benefit.

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.

Frankly, I loved playing there. The Americans are incomparable for the sport's business, and they're beginning to truly love football.

Who says a lighthearted approach to business is incompatible with success?