Quotes About Business

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

I had thought of joining my dad in his stock broking business in Delhi.

I love the Knicks and Rangers, right, but you still have a responsibility to your shareholders. They're not there because they're fans. You don't invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a stock because you're a fan. You do it because you think that the business is going to increase in value, that the stock price is going to go up.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

Methinks, that a broker, however good and savvy, will only speak about the stock that interest him after he has bought enough of shares already and is now in the process of booking profits.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

I am not in the stock market. I am beholden to no one in what I do. If I spend billions on a fashion show, I spend billions. It's not public. And if I am in the stock market, I am obligated to account for things, and to show what the business is doing.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

Corporate share prices should not be driven by political tax games. Profits, not Washington shenanigans, should be the mother's milk of stocks. And this shouldn't be a partisan political issue.

I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

If you saw a better idea or business anywhere in the world, and you could reapply it legally and ethically and with attribution, you were supposed to do that. And I used that learning in building Cold Stone.

My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.

I have always been fascinated with precious stones, especially colored ones, and knew that I would eventually join the family business and be a jewelry designer some day.

I stood up for what I believed in starting businesses.

The day after Donald Trump was elected, Chinese business leaders, including the heads of Baidu, stood up and gave a speech saying, 'Come to China and build your company now.' The cognitive dissonance of that was amazing for some of us to think we might be losing our leadership role in building companies.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

There's a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations - it just doesn't stop.

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.