Suzanne de Passe Quotes

There's certain circumstances, there's certain situations, there's certain decisions that have to be made based upon the business and you can't take that personal.

I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.

You're kind of taught that the role of a business person is the decision making.

It's not only the things I want, football is a business and you know how it works.

When I told the Pacers I wanted to play for the Lakers, that was true feelings. I wanted to come back home.

Television is a business and, financially speaking, they have decisions and considerations that go far beyond the creative merit of the show. But at the same time, you'd like to believe in a man's word. When he shakes your hand and says he's going to stay with it, and doesn't, it's really frustrating in a way.

Advertising decisions are based on what's best for MyPillow, my employees and my customers.

I understand that it's a business, but I feel like good business would be wanting to make a player who performed at a high level on your team happy and want to feel like he wanted to be kept and feel like they wanted him to play here forever.

As the head of the public company, you can't say you can't sell, because then you're telling your shareholders that your own personal feelings about your assets are more important than their money. And they won't invest with you if you do that.

We applaud any company making business decisions that empower women.

I make all my advertising decisions based on what is best for my customers and my employees.

Addressing the weaknesses of capitalism will require us, above all, to do two things: first, to take a long-term perspective, and second, to re-set the priorities of business.

When something becomes a business, 50% of your decisions are what you have to do and not what you want to do.

Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value, we can do that.

If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.