Ambition Quote by Mary Portas

Good businesses will survive good times and bad times.

— Theo Paphitis

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're…

— Malcolm Forbes

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts…

— Marc Andreessen

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York…

— Gordon Ramsay

The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but the damage…

— Doreen Massey

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get…

— Steve Jurvetson

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we…

— Gerard Arpey

If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news…

— Steve Jurvetson

We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the…

— Richard Branson

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business.…

— Geoff Mulgan

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

— James O'Shaughnessy

Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional…

— John C. Bogle