Quotes About Business

There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because, at that time, my mother and father both ran a successful chain of women's lingerie stores in metro Detroit. Two were called Bra World, and two were called Lulu's Lingerie. They were great. They did well.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

Comedy is tough. It is a serious business.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

For entrepreneurs, choosing your co-founders is like a professional marriage. You're going to go through tough times, and you need to remember that ideas can change, but business partners can't.

In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.

Every employee at Workday thinks about how they are going to help customers be successful. It is a simple formula, but a lot of companies go out, and they don't listen to their customers; they don't try to solve hard problems, making it tougher for themselves to create a great business.

I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

The biggest cost of my business is competition - promoters bidding against each other to get a tour.

In rock n' roll, we don't sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to make records. So you've just got to get out on tour and be smarter about your merchandising.

The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?

The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.

I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I'm lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.

We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative... Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.

Large podcasts have a successful and sustainable business model in live show touring.