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In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed.
If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
Joe Gibbs helped define what the Washington Redskins stand for - integrity, hard work, determination, winning and championships.
It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.
It wasn't a typical 'Let's go play catch in the backyard' sort of father-son relationship. We always went to job sites with him.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.
Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.
Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.
Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately.
I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.
You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself.
Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.
Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.
Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.
Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.
The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.
I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.
The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.
The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.
I've thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn't be where I am today without my dyslexia.
We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.
Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.