Business Obstacles Quotes

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

Corruption may be one way of surmounting traditional laws or bureaucratic regulations which hamper economic expansion.

Entrepreneurs should never work with big corporations.

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

It's hard to get started as a young entrepreneur - often much harder than one would ever realize.

One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that.

The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.

If you make it difficult to do business, there's not going to be any business.

Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women-led companies.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

Thus in the Old World also the production of wealth must be increased, but this enterprise is far more difficult in Europe than in America. The population of Europe is much more dense than in the New World: a portion of its lands is exhausted: the great number of political subdivisions, and the multiplicity of tongues, increase enormously the difficulties in the way of business on a great scale. Traditions handed down from the time when men toiled to produce slowly and in small quantities things shaped toward a far distant ideal of perfection are still strong among its people.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

There's a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations - it just doesn't stop.

Every company has a rocky beginning.

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.