Business Reality Quotes

Dragons' Den' is about as close to real business as you can get on television.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

Nobody likes a loss, but we're in the postal business. We can't make a profit.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

No one wants to be picked at. At the end of the day, we're all human beings with feelings and emotions. Nobody wants to be critiqued and picked apart, but it's the nature of the business. It comes with the territory. For me, if they're not talking about you, that's where you can run into some trouble.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.

The 'Apprentice' was tough, tough work. It was all for charity, so I was thankful for the money Donald Trump gave me when I was fired.

If you've never founded a company, rest assured it never happens as elegantly and smoothly as articles in 'Inc.' and other business magazines or case studies suggest.

It was tough [to move to the Golden State Warriors] because of my success level in New York. To leave this city and go out west and move my family was tough, but this is part of the business. Something as a player that might happen to you.

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

I think a lot of people would assume that my job is more about supermodels and naked ladies and all that, and no, it's just really about fashion, merchandise and customers. So the obviously sexy parts - you get to go to the fashion show and all that stuff. It's really just business. That's my story. I'm sticking to it.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.

A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.