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Hopefully, I can advise entrepreneurs to avoid mistakes. But you can never be sure if you're trying something new and unreasonable.
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.
Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.
Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.
I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.
Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.
Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israel's security as absolute.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.
The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.
The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.
Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.
Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.
I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.
I want to prove to people that every single business can be reinvented and fixed. And I want to prove to myself that I'm good at it.
What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.
What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
Leaders don't change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.
The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.
Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.
In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes.
I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.
Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.
Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business.
People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really
Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.
Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.
If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you
The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
If he can basically prepare, be the starting quarterback, come in and execute and keep his head right, then I feel good about Weeden.
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
As we progress and become more like the Savior, we can strengthen every group with whom we associate, including families and friends.