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Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.