Quotes About Business

I tell people, 'I'm the only business in the world where I don't pick my merchandise.'

As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.

If we were to choose to do something on a console, the merger with Activision is going to be extremely helpful.

Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.

I look at Boston-based companies all the time... There's certainly great companies in Boston. If the deal makes sense on the merit of the deal itself, we'll go and do the deal.

If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.

I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it.

I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.