I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
I had a dream about you. I was a small business owner, and you were also a small business owner. The difference was I was a sole proprietor, and you were a midget.
Contrary to popular belief, people always say "It was a pleasure doing business with you". It is the only thing that has stayed with me after an assignment. Always mix business with pleasure. That is a secret they don't want you to know. BUT never mi...
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are ...
Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are l...
I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, ...
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regul...
We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fa...
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same ...
Claire Standish: Why didn't you want me to know that you are a virgin? Brian Johnson: Because it's my business - my personal business. John Bender: Well, Brian, it doesn't sound like you're doing any business.
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
You can get into any business by leveraging joint ventures.
The more businesses you have, the less work you do.
Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business
I’m not in the torturing business, but I am in the monster-killing business.
The best person to get something done is a busy person.
The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
