Business Quotes - Page 21

My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones.

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

One fails forward toward success.