Don Nickles Quotes

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Even technology companies get good news sometimes.

PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.

I made my money by selling too soon.

When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.

All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.