Quotes About Business

Governor Romney has been a great success in business. He has been a great success as executive, as governor of Massachusetts. I think that's the kind of guy we want in the White House.

As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily.

Don't forget, a lot of people want that to happen because they make a lot of money by taking money out of this country. Those deals [like NAFTA] are very good for a lot of people.

Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

In all great business very large errors are excused or even unperceived, but in definite and local matters small mistakes are punished out of all proportion." This is one reason politicians are risk-averse, and why modern government administration seeks to minimize risk and avoid failure through a mindless bureaucratic process that delivers mostly mediocrity.

Norton Simon had lots of money and believed that the $2 million investment to launch a Halston perfume was more than worth the gamble. 'Of course, it wasn't my two million,' Halston said. 'It was just my name, which is worth a hell of a lot more than two million.

I initially purchased two secondhand horse rides, and I talked a department store into allowing me to set them up in its roof garden. I operated the rides myself. I refurbished the machines myself. I would polish them and clean them every day, and I was there to welcome the mothers of the children as they arrived. —Masaya Nakamura, founder and president, Namco

the idea to other handset manufacturers. Even though he was offering something for free, it was a tough sell. The mobile phone world had

Well," he said, "we think that companies suck." Yahoo!'s president, Dan Rosensweig, broke the tension with a quip. "At Yahoo!, we like to think we suck less." Everyone had a good laugh.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

the quality of the CEO is the top factor in the success of the investment.

Una vez que identifique un segmento de mercado, tiene que preguntarse si es lo bastante amplio y accesible como para justificar su esfuerzo de marketing. Si la respuesta es no, entonces tiene lo que se llama un producto «fabricable», pero no un producto «comercializable». Solo dan dinero los productos comercializables.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

She regarded herself as a true professional; 50 percent carbon-steel image, honed to glittering perfection, 45 per cent killer class business woman, 5 per cent dangerous psychotic.

And to come back to the economy for a moment, the lifetime distribution of firms is also a power law. Now