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Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
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.
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.
In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
The media agency model has been hit by a perfect storm ... We are chasing share in a broken system, rather than changing the system.
I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
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.
We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.
Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.
Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.
A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.
Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.