Business Quotes - Page 40

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.

...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is work toward it. There's no such thing as any sustainable economy. The only thing I know that's even close to sustainable economic activity would be organic farming on a very small scale or hunting and gathering on a very small scale. And manufacturing, you end up with way more waste than you end up with finished product. It's totally unsustainable. It's just the way it is.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.