Anniversary Quote by John Walter Bratton

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I…

— Robert Fogel

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.

— George Steinbrenner

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

— Ben Elliot

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was…

— Jack Ma

We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.

— Carmen Cusack

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

— Elrey Borge Jeppesen

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

— Kenneth Lay

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

— Stephen Schwartz

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted…

— Robert Herjavec

New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.

— Lee Radziwill

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't…

— Edgar Bergen

I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really…

— James Jebbia