Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

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

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

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

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.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

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

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

When 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.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

War is the business of barbarians.

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.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

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

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

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

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I’ve been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

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.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

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 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.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

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

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

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

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

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

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

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

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

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

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

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

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.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

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

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

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

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads ‚The End Is Near,‘ passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you’re like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.