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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.
Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.
You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.
You can't equate me with Joe Jackson. I've never hit my kid, I'm educated, I understand the business world.
I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
My focus is on training and championships. I will look at business after retirement... maybe 20 years later.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.
LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.
I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.
I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.