I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

I didn't even think about good guy, bad guy when I started. I was that unfamiliar with the business.

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

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