Quotes on Business

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

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

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.