I am not an economist… I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it’s the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day’s game. It’s not a vacation – most guys view the road as a business trip.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.
People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You’re watching a great television show you’re really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Creating a strong company culture isn’t just good business. It’s the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders – employees, management, and customers.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Business is in itself a power.
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, ‘Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people’s business.’
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don’t think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.
I’m not saying I’m wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That’s not the end of the world.
My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
What other people think about me is not my business.
A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.
Never argue with a profit.
In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Jerry Ormand was already a legendary Texas oilman when I met him. Yet he took the time to introduce me to the fine points of the oil business and how to survive and prosper amid the chaos of a rough-and-tumble industry.
Good design is good business.
If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it’ll die because they don’t go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you’ll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you’ll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
