Quotes About Business

Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

We have been told many times that we have become too big, but these are things that only someone who has no idea of the size of the competition can say. We are too small.

When you get an invitation to come back and be part of the team that will be the architect of the next generation of growth, when you get an opportunity in a business of the size and scope of McDonald's, that's incredibly attractive.

As I get older in my skateboarding career, I would like to get more into the business side of things - starting my own company or investing.

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

Even though people do not traditionally think of being empathetic as a business skill, it can create enormous value.

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.

One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Running a business and need more skilled workers? If you're not considering apprenticeships, then you're behind the curve.

The life of an actor is not filled with limousines and talk-show interviews. I've moved crates of beer; I've been a bartender, personal assistant, butler. But all those skills have helped me in the business aspect of what I do.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.