Quotes About Business

If you give a man a gift because you hope he will award a particular contract to you, you are obviously demonstrating a lack of confidence in your ability to make your normal services profitable to him. And if you're doing it because your competitors are, then you're suggesting that the prospect really isn't a very ideal customer.

The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

E,in zilele noastre un om de afaceri are tensiune cu carul, mai cu seama intr-un comert cu medicamente cu bucata, cind n-ai cum sa stii,dimineata, la deschidere,daca vreun ticnit de hippy n-o sa dea peste tine si n-o sa-ti arda un glont.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

Advertising is only another form of statistics.

And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet ' even in the competitive movie business.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

My father was an inspiration to me I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.

Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might.

The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

Asset-light industries are attractive since they require less capital to be deployed in order to generate sales growth. The finest examples are franchise operations, such as Domino's Pizza, where growth is funded by franchisees rather than by the company. Other

high capital intensity companies can also be attractive, especially where the capital requirement confers stability and deters entrants.

The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And

much diversification is really diworsification.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.