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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.
Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.
Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.
By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong
Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.
So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.
Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.
So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.