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

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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.

Time is bunk.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

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.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Bring them on.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

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

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

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

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

The movie business is a big gamble.

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.

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

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

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.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

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.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

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

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

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

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

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

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

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

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.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

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

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.