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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

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

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 I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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.

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

God always takes the simplest way.

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.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

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.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

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

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

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

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.