If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.
Nowadays, business is all about productivity – and our folks produce.
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
My definition of a ‘friend’ is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, ‘Yeah, sure. You know what? Let’s talk about what we can talk about. Let’s help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.’
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn’t that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn’t appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn’t be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you’re trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
If you can’t turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn’t be in the ad writing business at all.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens – allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you’re at, but the future of who’s going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.
People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.
If you go back, ‘The Great Gatsby’ would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
If you’re doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
Golf isn’t just my business, it’s my hobby.
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.
Payments is a hard business. It’s a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard.
Small business is America’s engine of job creation.
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
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.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
