Quotes About Business

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

Chicago's a flyover city. I don't think we should try to change that. But it would be really cool if we had a little more opportunity for investors to come hang out.

Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier.

Our investors are here for only one reason: great returns. They want to make money.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

Investors tend to avoid food companies.

My advice, it's get involved in any and every aspect of the business that affords itself to you.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

China can be a difficult market for IP in general and IP compliance.

Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.

My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.

My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn't afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture, and my mother is an antiques dealer.

Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.

It is hard to have a fashion business in any country, but even more difficult in Ireland.

What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.

I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.

My first job was on the end of a pier in the Isle of Wight doing show business.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

After working with my father for two years, we started Candie's, a line of imported shoes from Italy. Then in 1982 I set out to start my own business.

I use my American Express card whenever possible because I earn Air France points, which have taken me to America in business class. I like top quality so I will pay well for an item if I think it is finely made, but I'm not extravagant.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.