Quotes About Business

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I had my first flower stall when I was seven, at the end of the drive in Minehead, Somerset. Nobody was stopping so I moved it to my neighbour's drive, because I thought: 'Location, location, location.' It worked.

I think marriage can sometimes turn things into a business. It stops being about feelings.

Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

Being in meetings - that feels like work. But finding candy, being in the store - that's fun, and it drives me.

My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.

If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are - that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.

If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.

Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it allows us to ensure greater customer relevance and reduce delivery times.

When you're trying to expand your business, it's about real estate in the stores.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.