In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.
Robert KiyosakiTo 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.
ConfuciusA business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard BransonFashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.
Kanye WestMy business is to prevent the future.
Ray BradburyI 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.
Mark ZuckerbergI have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
Vivienne WestwoodThe 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.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
Bill GatesEverybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
Robert KiyosakiEver since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.
Kurt CobainI was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
Dolly PartonI have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.
Hunter S. ThompsonPeople do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.
Taylor SwiftA business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. ForbesI 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.
Warren BuffettI don’t do research. I never have.
Ray BradburyI have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Charlie ChaplinHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert FrostHere’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
Frank OceanOne often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich NietzscheI don’t like the intellectual label.
Noam ChomskyWhen a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
Jocko WillinkIf my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.
Robert KiyosakiThe good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas JeffersonEverything isn’t political.
Jordan PetersonWriters are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo CoelhoTo turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve JobsTo find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur SchopenhauerReally I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia WoolfA holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Will RogersNot only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.
Dwayne JohnsonI sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.
Mr. TBeing beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.
Lady GagaIf you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.
Dolly PartonI would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.
John KennedyModern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert FrostBusiness is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry FordI don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.
Noam ChomskyForeigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.
Karl LagerfeldTo be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.
Cristiano RonaldoMicrosoft 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.
Steve JobsThe 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.
Barack ObamaOutsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.
Stephen CoveyI think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.
Billy GrahamYou know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
Dave GrohlThe fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand RussellI respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.
Frank OceanEvery 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.
Richard BransonEven to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander HamiltonLies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis BaconI’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.
DJ KhaledI went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
Charlie ChaplinIn all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar WildeThose convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale CarnegieLet me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert HooverWhen you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve JobsI don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
Dan QuayleI think the idea of art kills creativity.
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