Business Quotes
“A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'”
“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”
-- James Cash Penney
“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.”
-- Bill Gates
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
-- Bill Gates
“We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.”
-- Rick Perry