Business Decline Quotes

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

We are in a downhill slide, the likes of which we have never seen in our business. And the Japs are in the wings ready to eat us up alive.

We're losing our companies; we're losing jobs; they devalue us out of business - China and these other countries.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a kind of loser mentality. And when you ask them what's wrong with the business, they'll point to extraneous forces.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

In the early stages of the state, taxes are light in their incidence, but fetch in a large revenue...As time passes and kings succeed each other, they lose their tribal habits in favor of more civilized ones. Their needs and exigencies grow...owing to the luxury in which they have been brought up. Hence they impose fresh taxes on their subjects...and sharply raise the rate of old taxes to increase their yield...But the effects on business of this rise in taxation make themselves felt. For business men are soon discouraged by the comparison of their profits with the burden of their taxes...Consequently production falls off, and with it the yield of taxation.

The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

We are killing - absolutely killing our energy business in America.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Harman had great brands, but the processes were falling apart.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.

There has been a black hole in the bar business in Las Vegas, particularly on the Strip in tourist areas.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. So whether you get your hair done less or your hair cut less, or your nails done less, as a writer and a speaker I was very clear that corporations weren't being as open and as generous and I wasn't getting the kind of work that I usually got.