Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.' Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>