Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

War is the business of barbarians.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.