From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

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

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

We’re running the company to serve more people.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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 had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Leadership is influence.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

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.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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

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.

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

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

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

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

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

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.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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

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.

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

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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.

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.

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

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

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.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.