Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nouriel Roubini

Celebrity has become a burden. There are more demands on your time. People think it is glamorous to fly places. But it is not - even if you travel business class and stay in wonderful hotels, you end 10,000 miles away from home.

Nancy Lublin

My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

Pierre Omidyar

Don't let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they're talking about, don't let them tell you it can't be done because often they will tell you it can't be done, and it's just because they don't have the courage to try.

Pierre Omidyar

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

Pierre Omidyar

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Neil Young

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

John Ashcroft

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.

Kenneth Arrow

Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.

Kevin Warsh

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

Kumar Pallana

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

Kevin McCarthy

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

Kevin McCarthy

Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

Kevin Plank

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

Kevin Nash

Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.

Karl Marx

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Karl Marx

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

P. T. Barnum

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

P. T. Barnum

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

P. T. Barnum

Every crowd has a silver lining.

Paul Newman

When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

Paul Newman

...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"

Marya Mannes

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

Marya Mannes

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

Marshall McLuhan

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Marshall McLuhan

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

Marshall McLuhan

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Marshall McLuhan

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.