I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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.

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

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

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

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

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

Facts are not interesting to me.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

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.

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

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

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.

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.

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.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

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

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.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

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

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

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

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

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

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.