We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

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.

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.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

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

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.

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.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

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

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

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.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

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.

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

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

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

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.

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.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

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.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

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

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

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

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

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.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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 a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

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.‘

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

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

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.