Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I 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.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

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.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

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

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

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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.

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

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass – the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that – so they’re kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

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

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.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

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.

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

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

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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?

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.

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.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

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

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

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.

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

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

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

War is the business of barbarians.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

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

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

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.

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.

My business is to prevent the future.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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

To me, we’re marketing hope.

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 movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

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

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

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.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

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

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.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

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

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.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.