I’ve been in a very male-dominated business for decades. I found, particularly early on, that there’s plenty of room for passion, but there’s very little room for emotion.
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
My father told me, never have partners.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that’s the best business you can have.
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
If you’re not learning, then you’re stagnant. If you’re stagnant, then you’re not evolving and the business isn’t progressing.
In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it’s not a Grammy, it’s longevity.
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company – sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media – all industries are becoming technology industries. And it’s not information technology: it’s business technology.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, ‘Don’t you want to have a normal job and a normal family?’ I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
If you have a business that isn’t growing the top line, it’s very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.
I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.
There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better… and: do more of what you do.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
Everyone I put in business, I must’ve taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven’t done right by me, but it’s all gravy.
The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.
Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we’d all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?
This is our 40th year in business. We don’t have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.
Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies – the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.
Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
Details create the big picture.
I hate anyone that is involved in the drug business.
Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.
There was a point in the late ’90s where all the graduating M.B.A.’s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
I think I’m basically a liberal Conservative – I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we’re going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
