When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem – they are a substantial part of the solution.
When we acquire businesses in the developing world, we estimate if the growth opportunities are strong.
No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.
What’s more confrontational than thugs and criminals looting our businesses?
Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them – and build on them.
As businesses, as communities, as families, and friends, we need to go forward remembering that we’re all connected in one way or another.
If you’re running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down… and find a little time for me.
Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn’t obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.
To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.
We must never forget that it is the private sector – not government – that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.
Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people’s money. They’re not great investors or entrepreneurs.
There’s a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There’s a message there.
Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.
We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.
Quite often, people who build big businesses don’t believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several – and I won’t – who put themselves in that invidious position.
If businesses are being given relief, shouldn’t the same relief be given to the American people?
There’s an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung’s future will hinge on.
As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy of the future. As we all know, the best way to reduce our deficit and bring down our debt is by putting Americans back to work.
The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.
Don’t punish small businesses with over-regulation.
By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.
It’s about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It’s about health and safety regulations and green fines.
Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.
Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.
Whether an economic boom is fueled by the fashion industry or technology innovations, it needs a brick-and-mortar foundation. This is not only true in New York and San Francisco; wherever you live, you can find a local hotspot positioned to attract interest from businesses, consumers and investors.
If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
More and more businesses are seeing the potential of a more sustainable business model, driven both by the firm belief that business can be a force for good and by the realization that the cost of inaction often exceeds the cost of action – notably when it comes to the growing threat of climate change and water scarcity.
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It’s constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That’s about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.
Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.
Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You can’t punish business into doing the things you want.
As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese – they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
I don’t have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
I believe the private sector and small businesses drive our economy, and that means the federal government should work to ensure the private sector is as robust as possible.
I still enjoy what I’m doing, which is building businesses. I don’t play golf. I don’t have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
The overwhelming number of Democrats… think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.
I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.
We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy.
I am not a politician. I’m an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
