Quotes About Business

Everybody got into the rugged outdoors business and into lifestyle merchandising and so forth and so on. And everybody was getting into catalogs and e-commerce and - you name it. It was just intense.

My mother was very fashion-oriented, and she started a little children's wear business that became large in this little town. She used to be able to look at a picture of an outfit and just start cutting the fabric right there.

What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.

There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

I've said a lot of things: I've said I'm never going to date someone in the business and that I'm never going to date someone outside the business.

I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life.

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

After 2012, I'm pretty much out of the media and entertainment business. But yes, I was the outsider and no, it wasn't a handicap. To me, it was a blessing in disguise.

If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam.

I want people to see the fact that we've lost millions of manufacturing jobs to outsourcing and globalization. Sometimes images can convey that better.

In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.

I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably feeling assaulted by the need to always be on and always be interacting.

To me, I don't even think I had a childhood. From when I was a baby to 12 years old, yes. But as soon as I left the Bahamas, that stuff was over. It was just straight business. I'm on a mission. That's how it's always been.

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

We're not in the business of taking large operations in the U.S. and moving them overseas.

Of course, an Oscar nomination would have added considerably to the film's business abroad. But it has already made nearly Rs 150 crore. It has done stupendous business overseas. We did a business of Rs 80 crore when we took 'Devdas' to Cannes.

When I fly overseas, I usually fly business class. If not, my knees are going to be at my chin.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.