The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.
Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.
If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
