We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

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

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

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

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

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

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.

I love big business!

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

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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.

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

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

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

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.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

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

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.

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

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

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

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.

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.

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

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

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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.

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.

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.

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

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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

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

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

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