Quotes About Growth

You can't be pro-business unless you're pro education.

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

There is a lot of opportunity in all of this stuff [like healthcare business]. I don't know why everybody is focused on the negatives.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.