Business Quotes - Page 87

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be witnessed in the marketplace as well as the forums of international diplomacy. In the past, a man's honor and reputation were his most valuable assets. Business agreements were made with a handshake. Today one might be well advised to check the "bottom line" and read the "small print."

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.