Quotes About Business

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

With everything that's happened since I was exposed as a scammer, I can't lie, it's been good for business. Now I can sell my story for way more than my original book deal ever was.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

I buy when other people are selling.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.

When it comes to people I love and care about, I may condense the time, but I'm giving them every ounce of my energy. When it comes to creation, I block create and block focus on business.

Valvoline's decision to invest in our community sends a message around the world that Lexington is a great place to do business.

There's no need for women and moms to go through this world alone without the help and the support from the businesses that do business in our communities and that generate success from the women in our community. That should not be happening.

Getting into film production was obviously the next step once we had consolidated our music business.

We can't, nor should we try, to influence who our employees vote for, but facilitating their involvement in civic action is better for business, better for our people, and better for our government institutions.

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

In the corporate world, there's, like, a 300 percent markup. In our world, we normally don't go above a 100 percent markup.

A club like ours loses £8-10m every year to be competitive, and nobody wants to keep a business that is losing money every year.

We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.

I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.