Quotes About Business

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ'' out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

Not everybody has experience in drilling for oil in the Permian Basin, but the same thing is happening in every industry everywhere in some manner.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.