People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

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

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

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

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

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.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

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

What you guys want, I’m for.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.