All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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 believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.

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 spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

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.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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

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.

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

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.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

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.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

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

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

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

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I love big business!

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

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

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

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

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

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!

In politics nothing is contemptible.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.