It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
If Satan wasn’t around, churches would go out of business.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove.
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.
Don’t compare your career to anyone else’s. It’s tough when you’re in a business that’s competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I’m having to learn to be patient and be where I am.
While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
My dad was a man of integrity who taught me to always do the right thing even when nobody is watching. He ran a trucking company, and watching how he operated his business instilled a drive and work ethic that stuck with me.
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.
Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you’re working with.
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It’s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
