Business Quotes - Page 124

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

Success in business isn’t about being right; it’s about being committed.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

The things that get rewarded, get done

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Business is the most exciting game.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.