Quotes About Business

Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.

You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that.

That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.

I grew up in Mexico until I was 16, and then we moved to San Antonio because my dad's business was headquartered there.

I educated myself and came back to Miami after law school, got married, and started a business.

Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.

People see Michael Jordan as a great basketball player, but he's a great businessman, too.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

I have a lot of respect for Microsoft.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

Microsoft is a much bigger company than Qualcomm - a much bigger company - and there were a few days where I thought, 'I don't know if I can do this. It's huge.' My job was to come into the company and grow new businesses, and I thought, 'I'm not sure,' but it's all worked out pretty well.

Who is my biggest competitor? AOL, Microsoft, and AT&TAtHome.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

Hard audiences tend to be when it's all men. It's when businesses have dos where they're at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They're men of a certain age - basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can't make these people laugh hysterically.

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you... Are we the same? Good lord, no! That's why Europe's fun - it's fun because it's different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same - it's ghastly.

When we came up, Clive Davis and other record execs would do anything to keep Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, even Johnny Mathis intact, because they wanted to keep alive a musical legacy. As a result, those artists were able to spend 30 to 40 years in the business and still make a living, still have a fan base.