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

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

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

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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

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

I 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!

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

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

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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.

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.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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.

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

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.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

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

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

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.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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

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

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

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

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

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

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

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.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

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?

Leadership is influence.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

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

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.