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

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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

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.

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.

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

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

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.

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

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

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

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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.

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

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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.

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.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

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.

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?

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

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

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

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

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

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

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.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

When in doubt, don’t.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

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.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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.

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.

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.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

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

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

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

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

I give opinions, not advice.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.