Business Quotes - Page 36

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

It's none of your business what people say about you.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.

If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

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.