Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

Marco Rubio

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

Magic Johnson

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

We had one guy offer us $75 for it. Maybe we'll go into business.

Brian Sullivan

We have the technology and we have a prototype. Right now, we're looking at different business models.

Charles Prince

We have the opportunity to grow the consumer business dramatically.

We have the big screen TV, whatever the hot game is, is on. And we can always determine our business by UK and U of L.

David Stern

We have the assets, the resources, the marketing and business operations to make this work. This is what we're geared to do.

We were going to stop last night, but we decided to keep going. I don't know if we'll get another $100,000 to meet the $150,000 level just from our listeners, but maybe this will spur on some business to give us $10,000, knowing that they'll match it.

We were successful in being financed because we have a standard business model. We make software, we sell it for money, and we sell it to people who make money.

James Boyd

Typically when you look at business class seating, the sleep position is a derivative of the sitting position -- it always keeps you in cradle position. What we're trying to accommodate is a number of different sleeping patterns during a 14-hour flight -- on your side, on your back, on your stomach or moving around between positions.

We didn't have enough business for that line, so we shut it down at the end of 2002.

Xerox would present such an unfathomable integration challenge. Really, when you think about it, Xerox would like to be more like HP. The page volume is moving more to printers, and you wonder why HP would effectively want to take on a business that's principally in decline when they effectively have a business that's increasing.

.travel is now a permanent part of the foundation of the World Wide Web. As travel and tourism businesses register their .travel domains they are not only reshaping the next generation Internet but making history by playing their role in this defining moment in the evolution of travel industry.

We're really not concerned about whether or not we'll be able to keep the thing busy, ... There's plenty of business out there.

John Barth

We're really in a unique position with three very strong businesses that complement each other. It's about growth.

While it's perhaps desirable for some businesses to have a little more pricing power, the overall rate of inflation could rise at a rate that's very harmful to the economy this year.

We will have trucks traveling around providing coverage of state arts, culture, business and healthcare events.

Sophia Amoruso

Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.

Morris Chestnut

There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently.

Herb Kelleher

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.

Clayton Christensen

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

Hugh Laurie

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

Tim McGraw

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business

Muhtar Kent

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

David Ogilvy

Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.

David Ogilvy

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

David Ogilvy

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

Ann Beattie

I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.

(To) reignite growth, we have structured our operations into three independent businesses that leverage our core strengths while providing customers with the products they want and need,

There are probably thousands of businesses that need this type of help, but this happens to be in the back yard of the lawmaker who runs the subcommittee.