Quotes About Business

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.

I make more money selling advice than following it

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.

Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

A sucker has no business with money in the first place.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.

If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.

Google makes so much money that it's now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

I would have to say the best was when my mom formed a company for me. I write out all of the checks for my performance business. I get to see the money I make and how much it takes to do what I do.

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.