Business Growth Quotes

Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.

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.

We welcome the interest from PE firms, as we see it as a sign of our progress, and my position is that we should always open the doors to those who want to bring capital to our industry.

Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

The American economy must be altered to put business back in the driver's seat. The correct role for finance is to support job creation.

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction

During my administration, we've welcomed a broad and diverse group of industries to New Mexico, including high-tech and traditional manufacturing, health care, information technology and finance. Some are homegrown New Mexico companies; others are global leaders in their industries.

I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making employees happy, and I think we're actually living in a special time where everyone's hyperconnected, whether through Twitter or blogs and so on. Information travels so quickly that it's actually possible to have it all, to make customers happy through customer service, to make employees happy through strong company cultures, and have that actually drive growth and profits.

Sales fixes everything.

You have to build businesses for longer term.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

Our progress isn't just limited to the operation. Financially, we have been performing well. United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history, and we made significant progress shrinking the margin gap with our closest competitors, strengthening our balance sheet, and returning significant cash to shareholders.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Now I have a business, artists to take care of. I want to make sure everything's going right, because at the end of the day, it's my name.