Quotes About Business

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.

Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

Parsee culture is definitely one of strong business acumen, high ethics, and an element of philanthropy.

I believe this Emperador Distillers investment in Whyte & Mackay is good for the Philippines as a whole, not only beneficial to our business.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

At the end of the day, it's a business about fighters and a business about people. This is our philosophy.

We help Chinese companies grow their customers abroad. They use Facebook ads to find more customers. For example, Lenovo used Facebook ads to sell its new phone. In China, I also see economic growth. We admire it.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.

In 2007, I was living in San Francisco. I came out of business school, and I was very keen on doing something with a small company. I felt that the market, in general, in mobile phones was just going to explode.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

If your family was part of the movie business, then watching 'Moguls & Movie Stars' is like looking at the family photo album: hilarious to members of the family, numbingly boring to those outside the family circle.

I know when I go out and wear a pretty dress and get photographed, I'm going to be in the press, which will help with my business.

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.