“It’s a funny thing: the Republicans are known for business, and yet the economy always seems to tank under the Republicans.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“To foster the innovation that was key to his vision for Match Group, though, failure had to be a part of the recipe, Yagan said. So, he incentivized failure within the company, asking executives in their reviews to share a failure from the year prior. If their mistakes hadn’t cost the company money,…”— McKenna Moore, fortune.com
“When people say, ‘I want to start a business,’ my question is always, ‘Why?’ Because there’s got to be a mission — there’s got to be a reason you’re doing it so that no matter how hard it is, you want to keep doing it over and over and over again, because you love it.”— Elizabeth Holmes, fortune.com
“If I were going to start a business today, I’d build it around Alexa and Google Home. If I was 15 or 20 or 25, and you know, back in the day when I was working as a bartender and started a company, I would learn ... because Alexa skills and scripting Alexa skills is really, really easy. But everybod…”— Mark Cuban, recode.net
“Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tid…”— Paddy Chayefsky, Arthur Jensen, Ned Beatty, imdb.com
“You should be evaluating every spend as "Do I spend that money do I get more cash before my cashout, extending cashout, or less." And then it becomes real simple, the answer is in the numbers.”— Troy Henikoff, linkedin.com
“There are other things you can spend your money on that have a slower payback, a slower trajectory.”— Troy Henikoff, linkedin.com
“There are things that you invest in (they could be marketing, products, salespeople), you make the investment to spend cash. And then, you should get a return on that investment. And cash builds up, and you get paid back, and then some.”— Troy Henikoff, linkedin.com
“We’re using Google PPC ads, retargeting ads and prospecting ads running on Facebook. We also work with a lot of different vendors.”— Mila Aldrin, yotpo.com
“Any entrepreneur, no matter how smart, is only right part of the time.”— Mark Pincus, mastersofscale.com
“Deep down, most of us want to be top performers. We want to have that dream career or business and live a rich life.”— Ramit Sethi, businessinsider.com
“Being entrepreneurial means you will fail. You just have to be willing to listen to people who tell you something is broken, and then fix it.”— Howard Schultz, amazon.com
“No business can do well for its shareholders without first doing well by all the people its business touches.”— Howard Schultz, amazon.com
“It was no longer enough to publish good content and know your existing readers would come to you. This is still true, now: A lot of the editors I know must overachieve for their publication just to survive.”— Tavi Gevinson, rookiemag.com
“James Bond: What business do you have with Elektra King? Zukovsky: I thought it was you who was giving her the business.”— Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Bruce Feirstein, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, imdb.com
“It's not my business. It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!”— Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, amazon.com