It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

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

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

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

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

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

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

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

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

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.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

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.

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.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

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

The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

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.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

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.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

The movie business is a big gamble.