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

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

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

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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.

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.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we’re the only ‚way of life‘ brand in the world. We’re one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it’s Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area.

I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I’m such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it’s kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the ’60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.

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.

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.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

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.

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

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.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

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.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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?

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

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

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

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

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

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

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

My business is to prevent the future.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.