Quotes About Business

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

Confidence is everything in this business.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

The courage to charge for what you do comes from charging for what you do.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.

My dad is a marketing mastermind.