Quotes About Business

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

Do I think that if Google wanted to go acquire a competitor, another big company, we should say no? Of course. We shouldn't be approving them acquiring AT&T or Sprint or some big company.

To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.

Building a business is a marathon, not a sprint. I don't believe it when people tell me they've been working 80-hour weeks for five years in a row. I just don't think that's possible.

People generally think of technology simply as a spur to start new businesses. But the Internet has also made it possible for more businesses to compete for any given opportunity.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.

We're convinced that Frisco Square is the perfect environment for Gearbox Software's new headquarters and we are eager to break ground, build out and move in so that we may join the community and bring everything we can to the city as a Frisco business and as Frisco citizens.

I don't mix business with anything. I don't do business dinners. I don't do business tennis. And I don't do business squash.

We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses - who after all are consumers too.

I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.

Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

We recognise the need for government to provide a clear and stable regulatory framework so as to release the investment power of business in order to deliver progressive public policy.

Corporations want stable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain systems.

Above all things, Strikeforce is a stable, established business that has experience with live events, and it has the martial arts culture. I worked closely with EliteXC and they had no martial arts culture. They didn't really understand what they were doing, so the odds of them being successful were kind of a crapshoot.