Business Quotes
“There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?”
“I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.”
-- Cat Stevens
“I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.”
-- Curt Schilling
“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
-- Walt Disney
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
-- Bill Gates
“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.”
-- Jeff Goodell
“The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.”
-- Jimmy Buffett