Quotes About Business

I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.

I always thought that if someone invested in your business, that meant he or she believed in it.

I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar - Cinestaan Film Company. But that's what I do personally.

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.

A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide factual information, and if necessary, goad the people into action - that too is not easy in the current political and business environment.

Our employment future rests on the shoulders of the small employer, and we should be investing with them.

There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.

I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.

For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked.

I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don't know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith.

I would rather deal with the vagaries of investing in Africa than in figuring out what the hell else Washington is going to do to the entrepreneur next.

London is becoming more of a business than a place for families. You can't live here. We're not investing in the future.

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.

Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.