I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Carpe per diem – seize the check.
To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He’ll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.
Make no mistake, blockchain will be a game changer, but it is not the answer to every business opportunity or problem.
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there’s a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
I am a social democrat – I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice – but… you can’t do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.
The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don’t know if there’s an obvious business model. I don’t think there’s a competitive, sustainable advantage.
My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.
People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.
America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.
My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
You can’t take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.
Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.
Every few seconds it changes – up an eighth, down an eighth – it’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
What’s the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
My focus has always been very much on what we’re doing at Red Bull. We can’t control what others do. It’s not our business.
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.
I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders’ value; the other is social responsibility.
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
If you create something, you don’t want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don’t respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don’t respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against an active government – and they folded. By the 1880s, the party’s leaders had abandoned their message of opportunity and tied themselves to big business.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.
