Ann Macbeth Quotes

Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists.

The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.

I speak for all Italian industry that India is number one priority for us.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

Great growth in India doesn't mean great growth for India companies. It could mean better growth for companies that are trading with India.

Growth at home depends on growth abroad.

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

Those Asians who come back with their MBA from America don’t come back to fight with each other. They come back to trade with each other.

Certainly, the human race can be fickle, and times do change, but overall, the barriers to bringing a product to market - and understanding what 'the market' wants - have remained unchanged.

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem.

Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

I call America our emerging market. They find it very amusing when I said that.

When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

As a producer or even as a basic seller, you need to be confident about your product.

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.