Business Risks Quotes

Business does not go where there is corruption and the rule of law does not apply.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

I've got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I'm a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.

Every time someone makes a mistake, and mistakes are made in this business, careers are ruined.

Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.

Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.

While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

The biggest mistake I've seen people make with their careers is, when they're good, after two or three years - and they happen to be smart - they announce that they're going out to start their own firm.

If someone who's passed on your company as an investor offers you to make introductions, that's kryptonite. Don't touch that.

To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.

Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

Backing Trump has been bad for business.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with a tyranny and a dictatorship. And when they do business with a dictatorship, a tyranny, they will have problems like this. This, I believe, is the beginning of several problems that there will be over the next few years because we are talking about American companies that now want to get cozy with this regime, and they will find themselves in very serious problems such as those we're seeing at this time with the Carnival Company.

There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.