Quotes About Business

If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it is that you want to do, but also, how you are going to build something better than the same chaotic environment you just left.

The likelihood of success drops dramatically when you expand, especially in the services business. And there's a lot of capital that goes into opening another office.

The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.

Hiring new people, opening up in new markets, all of that takes money.

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

We need to stay on the leading edge of technology, that technology in our products, in our internal process and manufacturing. But most importantly, we need the talent. It's multidisciplinary talent. It's talent that knows how to operate globally, that has technology savvy and a business savvy.

I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.

To make our state operate more like a business, we must get a handle on all of our assets and liabilities.

I love doing deals and operating companies.

I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.

When I first opened Milk Bar, I was also making desserts for the Momofuku restaurants. I will say that by day three or day four, I realized that operating a bakery was so different from operating a restaurant.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution.

I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.

Sometimes, on the business side, it's important to sort of have something with some sizzle in an offseason. It's the baseball operations department's job to push back against that, just as it's the business side's job to sometimes advance those thoughts.

I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.