Quotes About Business

If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.

I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.

Koch Industries is a multibillion-dollar business.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

The abortion industry is interested in nothing but the bottom line.

You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

I think it's important for industry to do well. But I want them to do well and do good at the same time.

For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.

When I meet with people who are ineffective managers with failing businesses, I can't change what they do - I have to change the way they think.

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories.

Industrialists have begun to realise that they would probably be better at influencing policy themselves, rather than depend on some political stooge or corrupt bureaucrat.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.