I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

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

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

The movie business is a big gamble.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

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

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

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.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

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.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

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

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

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

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.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

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

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.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

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.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

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.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

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.

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

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

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.