Quotes About Business

I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.

It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.

We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.

The investments and costs you have to put into digitalising means there will be an incentive for companies to merge.

We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

I'm glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn't done that, I'd still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me.

There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

When I make a decision to run, I will make an investment, just like any business I've made investments in before.

I'm not looking for hobbies, I'm looking for investments.

You can't build a fashion business with a short-term perspective, unless you're prepared to make investments that you know are not going to pay dividends immediately.

If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.

I myself am a private equity investor.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times, they confuse VCs with their friends.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.