Business Comparison Quotes

Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

There is nothing similar between the pharmaceutical and textile business.

I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

Religion is the best business. It does have many of the same problems as other business. It has to market, manage, account for and handle money, but it has one profound advantage. Religion does not have to deliver in this life.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.

I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.

We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

One thing that I would like the market to appreciate more is the difference between Disney and other media companies.

Our magnificent cadre of military officers have the kind of performance at military procurement as our magnificent cadre of business executives would have if they did the fighting—terrible!

In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

Doing consulting and government relations on the hill took up a lot less time than running a record store and brought in a lot more money