Rosser Reeves Quotes

Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.