Top 100 Quotes About New Business
#1. By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.
Evan Osnos
#2. Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.
Marc Ostrofsky
#3. As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
Bernie Sanders
#4. Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Jane Byrne
#5. New business models are altering workplaces everywhere, in for-profit and nonprofit sectors alike. Enterprises must constantly evaluate and change their business models to survive.
Timothy Clark
#6. New customers are the best source of new business
Frank Bettger
#7. Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.
Kevin Systrom
#8. Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.
Lloyd Dorfman
#9. Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
Barry Diller
#10. The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others.
Richard Branson
#11. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.
Akira Mori
#12. When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.
Peter Thiel
#13. The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
Marvin Ammori
#14. I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
Adam Kluger
#15. A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.
Steven Pressfield
#16. The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.
Peter Guber
#17. A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
Ryan Holmes
#18. Enron is now officially out of the energy business. They are now in a new business: confetti.
Jay Leno
#19. One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.
Richard Branson
#20. That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.
Barack Obama
#21. The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units to pursue the new opportunities. But the individual business units themselves within those transformed corporations were almost inert to change.
Clayton Christensen
#22. In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.
Tom Hunter
#23. When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.
JJ Ramberg
#24. If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
Ian Jackson
#26. There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake.
Jerry Della Femina
#27. We often equate a new beginning or fresh start to moving to a new area, changing jobs, starting a new business or entering a new relationship. While this is true, there is also the possibility that God wants to bring newness to you right where you are.
Jamie Larbi
#28. People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.
Gurbaksh Chahal
#29. The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.
John McAfee
#30. All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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Gary Hamel
#31. The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.
Marc Ostrofsky
#32. In my new business, this is one of the things we work actively with CEOs to see: how one idea from the top can spiral into 100 projects for the team and overwhelm them in ways the CEOs can't even imagine. But
Jonathan Raymond
#33. Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.
Steven Pressfield
#34. There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.
Rob Portman
#35. A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.
Richard Branson
#36. Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
Chris Hadfield
#37. There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.
Hilary Rosen
#38. Just add value to what you're offering if you really want to win new business, but don't reduce your price.
Carlos Castillo
#39. You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.
Fred DeLuca
#40. To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.
Patrick Dixon
#41. The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
Tadashi Yanai
#42. You can bring tremendous value to your business, your customers, and yourself by becoming proficient at bringing in new business.
Mike Weinberg
#43. Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.
Alex Berenson
#44. Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.
Jay Samit
#45. Over the past six years [since implementing RIMS] we have added very few additional full-time jobs, but we have brought in $120 million of new business ... These efficiencies have really given us the ability to take advantage of new opportunities and expand our business.
Don Richardson
#46. Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.
Monita Rajpal
#47. The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.
Peter Chernin
#48. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.
Richard Branson
#49. Does he or she know you, like you, and trust you? Does he want to see you succeed? Does she want to help you find new business? If so, then you have yourself a 'Personal Walking Ambassador.'
Bob Burg
#50. You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.
Clayton Christensen
#51. There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
Michael Ritchie
#52. Those guys who want to have the Mohawk ... which, to me, is the new business casual.
Gerard Way
#53. the OGX exec, told a story about how Eike stayed home sick from work once. He spent the day in bed. The next day when he showed up at the office, he said, "You're all fucked. I didn't sleep well, and I wrote up twenty-seven new business ideas that we need to get cracking on right away." Eike
Alex Cuadros
#54. [O]rganizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.
Fritjof Capra
#55. That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.
Steven Kotler
#56. I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.
Rob Kardashian
#57. In entrepreneurship, you decide to give up your day job at the point where either (A) the hobby/new business is at least making some form of ends meet, or (B) you feel that you need to dedicate yourself for a certain amount of time to it and give yourself the last hoorah.
Daymond John
#58. Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.
Kevin Systrom
#59. 90% of new business fail in the first three months of launching, due to lack of proper planning, wrong selection of niche/products and marketing platform.
K. Raveendran
#60. The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley.
Sue Kelly
#61. The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.
Eva Marcille
#62. The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
Blake Mycoskie
#63. From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.
Red McCombs
#64. It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#65. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward De Bono
#66. We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.
Howard Draft
#67. A title from the1966 movie
"The Russians Are Coming,
The Russians Are Coming,"
gives a new meaning to
a phrase: "wait a minute,
we've seen this movie before
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#68. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.
Robin Hoyle
#69. Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
Steven Sinofsky
#70. The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
Barry Diller
#71. Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
Diana Ross
#72. Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
Teddy Sears
#73. Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.
Zicheng Hong
#74. Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
January Jones
#75. Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.
Tony Evans
#76. Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.
Bob Schmetterer
#77. You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.
Simon Le Bon
#78. He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
Michelle Obama
#79. I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.
L.M. DeWalt
#80. Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
Bob Selden
#81. The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.
Ellen Tauscher
#82. The Yankees understood what New York understood, that there was no shame in buying success, and maybe because of their lack of shame they did what they did better than anyone in the business.
Michael Lewis
#83. Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.
Howard Coble
#84. 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.
Robert Kiyosaki
#85. Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz
#86. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
Jon Bon Jovi
#87. Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses
Warren Buffett
#88. As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.
Louis Tice
#89. It's tough to live in New York and be in the business.
John Krasinski
#90. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill
#91. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#92. I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.
Andrew Tobias
#93. Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.
Gary Hamel
#94. What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#95. Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.
John Raese
#96. The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
Diane Duane
#98. 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.
Scott Shane
#99. I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
Tommy Kirk
#100. Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles ... first, we need to make more with less ... second, we need to design out waste ... third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply
David Miliband
