It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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.

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.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

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.

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

The future of advertising is the Internet.

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

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.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

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

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

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

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

My business is to prevent the future.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

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

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

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.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

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

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

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

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

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

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

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

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

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.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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

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

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.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

I 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.

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

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.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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?

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.