Quotes About Business

The 'boom-bust' cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business.

When it comes to the challenges of being an entrepreneur and a female, specifically a female entrepreneur, it's something that we really have been living for a long time in a different pool.

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

There is no reason why T-Mobile can't be successful on its own and the only real reason AT&T would want to own T-Mobile is to increase its exclusivity by owning more spectrum.

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.

Some of the early speculation I saw in the press was that I am a rail fan. I'm not. This is not a hobby. This is a full-time business, and a very serious one at that. We're making this railroad work.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.

Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

I thought that if I could speed up the production of animation, I could make a big business out of recreating the amazing images of the news because what we get on TV is always the last bit of image.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

There are days when you make runs, and there will be a dry spell. Like in business, every year you don't make profits.

You must spend money to make money.

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.