Quotes About Business

Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. —BILL GATES

I personally aim for an 8–10× markup, which means a $100 product can't cost me more than $10–12.50.

MBA—$30K per year Commit to spending $2,500 per month on testing different "muses" intended to be sources of automated income. See The 4-Hour Workweek or Google "muse examples Ferriss" as a starting point.

That experience taught me to take agency in my own professional narratives, and that endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business.

DEC told its prospects why they ought to buy a minicomputer, not a DEC minicomputer.

The number-one theme that companies have when they really struggle is they are not charging enough for their product.

Normalmente nunca quieres formar parte de una tendencia popular. No quieres ser la cuarta empresa que vende comida para mascotas por internet a finales de la década de 1990.

Just as every Hollywood picture is "put together" by producers, who are always in tight control of the enterprise and reap the lion's share of the profits, so is the Outlaw Industry managed by lawyers.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

America has got the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

crucial moments of choice most of the business of choosing is already over." Willing is not conscious resolve, but rather being true to what one loves or sees.

Voy a promover la idea de Alan de dar a todos en la empresa una tarjeta con el título de 'Relaciones con los Clientes'.

Cuando los diseñadores desarrollaban la Liberty Tree Tavern, Walt Disney les dijo que había un solo concepto básico: "quiero que las personas vayan a un edificio de cinco millones de dólares a comprar hamburguesas de cinco centavos". Desde aquel día, el precio de las hamburguesas ha aumentado considerablemente, pero la premisa de proporcionar un gran valor sigue allí.

Es más importante adquirir clientes que cuenten, en lugar de contar a los clientes que se adquieren.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

I make more money in the off-season than I do playing football.

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.

You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.

If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.

My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.