Business Network Quotes

We will establish trading posts throughout the world … cover the ocean with our merchant marine. Our institutions will follow the flag on the wings of commerce.

Partnering with CNBC will allow Yahoo! Finance to expand its offerings instantly and enhance its position as the most viewed and utilized finance site in the world.

I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.

For years, people have been trying to talk to me about doing a show, and I wouldn't do one because I'm a serious business guy. I'm not going to do a stupid show. So, the opportunity came up with CNBC, and we started talking. It became a real business show. It's educational, people watch it, and it's great for small business.

A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

I have friends from China - by the way I love China. I love Japan. I have people that buy my apartments, I have people that work for me from China.

Tyrese is one of my best friends in the business.

I have to consider the amount of business that my name can do and choose my projects carefully.

Companies like Papa John's are largely a collection of small independent businesses.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it.

I would describe Hyperledger as a tremendous opportunity for collaboration for firms that range from gigantic commercial concerns all the way to the smallest, newest startups. It's a community of great intellectual depth and great commercial breadth, and as such, I think the opportunity to be part of that is a unique and enriching experience.

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

Me and Jason Kidd are with the same agency so I talk to him quite a bit.

I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

We have a rich and vibrant partner ecosystem with several thousand formal business partners. Some of them are very large companies that we collaborate with in many ways.

We can take our Japanese clients around the world. We can take them to Brazil, Europe, anywhere. And we also take companies from around the world into Japan.