Quotes About Business

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

Owners are made to be hated. We're the guys that trade away your favorite player.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

The business side of football makes it seem as though the owners are now more important than the fans.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

Black business owners throughout America too often face bigger barriers to accessing capital.

When you are making mandates on individuals to do things like wear masks and you're making mandates on individual business owners to put guidelines in place... they need a little bit of lead time to build up and get that done.

I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

I don't want to help brand someone else and not have equity or ownership in that company.

I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.

The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

In year 10 or 11, I used to buy packs of doughnuts for 50p from Morrisons, and sell them for 50p each. I made loads of money. So I was a doughnut hustler!

When a state offers your company an attractive package of incentives to relocate, you have to look at it, and if it significantly boosts your bottom line, you have to take it or answer to your investors.

The Chapultepec Accord is a pact among concessionaires to protect concessions.

And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.