Quotes About Business

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.

Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

Go where the money is... and go there often.

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

I'd rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.

Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.