Rocky Wirtz Quotes

I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

Franchises are independently owned and operated businesses whose owners are responsible for their operations.

The first thing you need in order to make a business viable is to preserve a cash flow. I made sure I didn't have any financial backing or support.

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

As chefs, a lot of the times we lose sight of the fact that we are in the food business and that it needs to make money to survive.

The Ellevest target client is the professional woman who either has her own money or has agency over her family's money. She is among the 75 million women in the U.S. workforce who want to take financial control and is looking for a straightforward way to achieve her dreams on her own terms.

We are financially strong. We are self-sustaining. We don't have an umbilical cord that we are concerned about.

A club like ours loses £8-10m every year to be competitive, and nobody wants to keep a business that is losing money every year.

When you earn your own money you feel much better about yourself.

I think it's important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.

We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

My husband and I are small business owners.

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost.

If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.

You just have to keep at it and budget yourself; be prudent. It's art, so you really don't go into it to make a zillion dollars, but there's definitely bills to pay, and I want everyone in the band to have a salary and whatever they need.

For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom.