We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.

I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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

Good design is good business.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

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

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Money does not guarantee success.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Big companies do not want to disrupt themselves. All they want to do is improve themselves. They see the blockchain as another IT project. It's going to save money; it's going improve a process here and there. It's not going to change their business.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.