Quotes on Business

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?

One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim is to penalize anti-social acts; actually their aim is to penalize heretical opinions. At least ninety-five Americans out of every 100 believe that this process is honest and even laudable; it is practically impossible to convince them that there is anything evil in it. In other words, they cannot grasp the concept of liberty.