Business Quotes - Page 111

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure - like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That's how people want to be treated, with respect. That's what I tell my employees - customer service is very important.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.