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If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.
Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.
If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.
I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.
My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."
They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.
I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father.
We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.
Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.
We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.
Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.
The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.
Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.
I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.
We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.
My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.
As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.
Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.
Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.
Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.
Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.
I'd much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.