Business Quotes

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

I want to democratize business news.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.