Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teller

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

Seth Godin

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

Seth Godin

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

This was a good thing. Whether a restaurant is smoking or non, it should be left up to the business owner.

Patrick Byrne

We are going to pursue discovery aggressively and follow the rabbit trail of unfair business practices wherever it leads.

There are subtle differences. Marketers should think about what type of company fits their business best. You want to think about the model-self-service, collaborative, hosted partner, agency. How much hands-on help do you need?

There are sites that are pretty well-known sites that are subscription based. That's a business model that people tend toward when their site gets success. But we're never going to do that.

Dan Hill

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

Muhammad Yunus

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

Muhammad Yunus

Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.

Muhammad Yunus

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.

Muhammad Yunus

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

Larry King

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.

Kate Bosworth

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

What we've offering our colleagues in the flu business is to now mine that data themselves and to conduct experiments that are suggested by our results.

What we've had is hand outs to business like this one, but that can't compensate for poor economic policy.

What we have discovered is that it is very hard to survive as a little Mom and Pop winery. And we knew we had to come up with a lot of different ideas to make the business successful. You had to get bigger.

What we find is that at the traditional small business, the individual who is our primary contact at that small business is usually not very technical.

What we do see as key are Microsoft's improving business fundamentals, specifically ... Windows 2000 and the Internet.

Charles M. Schwab

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Here's an appointment where Bush really can't make a mistake,

have started to grow at a rate faster than our business can support.

Gary Sinise

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

Having said that, Roman has a reasonably long-term view ? and the business plan that was put together was a five-year business plan. We are doing a lot of things to make the club more efficient and towards profit-making in five years' time.

Hard to make a business on less than 10 per cent,

Hard-core surfer guys will be out there and their families will be out. It will pick up business with a lot of people looking.

Skeet Ulrich

Having people in the business say, You do good work, is part of it, and so is knowing that it's true in my head, that I do good work.

Having now tried retirement briefly, I find that I like being involved in leading change and driving the business more directly.

David Healy

Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a noncore business right now.