Quotes About Business

You might be "just a programmer," but being able to speak to your business clients in the language of their business domain is a critical skill.

My father like all successful immigrants before him gently and not so gently exploited his own. This is way I learn business, this is way they learn business.

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.

I was in a bank meeting in London once that was so torturous, I had a flash of inspiration for another client.

Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.

I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

We're learning the business, meeting people we need to know, getting knowledgeable about our craft.

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.

All I do is talk to people, email people, take meetings with people, and do interviews. Then I work at maintaining relationships with my investors because the trust people place in me is my business model.

Sometimes I'll hike in the afternoon if I have meetings with New York in the morning.

I'm in L.A., but I don't do L.A. things except go to meetings.

There is nothing worse after a long car journey than to have to go to meetings.

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

If anything, I'd say my family was entrepreneurial - my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn't have this one mentor that was super successful.

I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter.

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.

When we were at MGM, we never did much about merchandise tie-ups There were too many executives and lawyers to go through.

An actor is only merchandise.