Business Quotes
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.
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I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
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There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
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Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
