Quotes About Business

We haven't made money in NASCAR in a long time.

I thought I'd go into law or something. I always loved NASCAR, but I didn't view it as a business opportunity.

In every decision that we've ever made that's important, the more input, the more people we've heard from, the better the result. And so that will never change in the business model of NASCAR, because the ideas come from all over the place, and that's the strength that we have.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.

If you're nasty to me in my place of business, I'm going to be really nasty back.

We in a nasty business, at times. I don't even say that in a good or bad way. It's just no place to get too emotional.

Trump is beset by clear and alarming conflicts between his international business concerns and the national interest.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

It was better "to have too much capacity than the other way around," Chang declared. Anyone who wanted to break into the foundry business would face the full force of competition from TSMC as it raced to capture the booming market for smartphone chips.

With powerful friends and knowledge of underhanded methods, former spooks were a step ahead in the struggle for property amid the wreckage of the Soviet state. Some provided security for leading businessmen. Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general, was hired by banker-turned-oilman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Others, such as Alexander Lebedev, built business empires spanning from telecoms to textiles. A third group, which included Vladimir Putin, worked directly in the government.

The oil industry—which in productivity terms was one of the great success stories of privatization—also began a slow but steady renationalization

The oligarchs' business model was changing, too. In the early 1990s, most of the great fortunes were made in banking, by taking advantage of high inflation or otherwise stealing from the state. But the 1998 crash had driven many of the oligarchs' banks out of business.

China had driven U.S. solar panel manufacturing out of business. Couldn't it do the same in semiconductors? "This

Our fundamental problem is that our number one customer is our number one competitor.

Yukos continued to use regional tax minimization schemes more aggressively than any other oil firm.

a then-unknown engineer named Ren Zhengfei established an electronics trading company called Huawei.

It seemed all Englishmen imagined one had to attend Oxford, dress in black and breathe the air of Britain to understand the workings of business. Business, he could have informed them, varied not a whit anywhere in the world.

His breath hitched. His lungs seized. She was the last thing he'd expected to happen because...frankly...a woman like her was so rare. He didn't know how to feel about it, but suddenly there was nothing else more important, not even Ferraro family business.

The healer is right, you know. This is far too dangerous to allow you to do. I do not know what I was thinking." "The healer can mind his own business." Shea sent Jacques a haughty, over-the-shoulder glare. "The healer may be an intelligent miracle-worker, but he does not know the first thing about women. Don't make the mistake of listening to him in that particular department.

THE BUSINESS OF SELLING SLAVES had been changing in Charleston. It was no longer as picturesque as it had been when William Makepeace Thackeray first visited. In 1856, the city decided the auctions near the Old Exchange and Custom House were out of hand, and the various slave brokers started opening up their own showrooms, with pens outside to hold the chattel.

The big companies dictate the terms and use their lawyers as henchmen.

I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.