Quotes About Business

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

Oh, sure, he was a good business man. I got that in a minute. But, underneath all the externals, they were the same kind. It hadn't anything to do with the faithfulness or meanness. They were just the same breed of cats. If you're a dog and you fall in love with a cat, that's just your hard luck.

This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Net operating income is derived as follows: Gross income ? total operating expenses = net operating income

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

I may not have the capacity to love everyone, but I do have the capacity to act as if I do and run my business accordingly." —Agnes Golden

Eighty-five percent of small businesses in this country fail within the first two years. Eight-five percent! That's a whole lot of failure. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.

he's become the man he envisioned himself being and has put his priorities in this order: God, family, education, business, and then everything else. But if family isn't second, it's about to be a problem;

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

When executives ask for an "estimate," they're often asking for a commitment or for a plan to meet a target.

Just remember, it's a small business and a long life. You're going to see all these people again.

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

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