Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Businessmen - Page 2

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Great times, beautiful place, Boulder. In fact, that's where I proposed to Jaye when I took her back there. In the parking lot of Baseline Liquors!

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder's vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.

Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

Nintendo is about innovation and bringing new and unique game play to the consumer - both the core gamer as well as new gamers.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.

I think people have called Twitch a niche for a long time but it's not, gaming is bigger than Hollywood.

I'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.

You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.

It doesn't all have to be about giving money. Sometimes it's a smile that changes the life of one little kid.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

I tore my biceps and had two hernia surgeries.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

My three-course meal would be: smoked salmon with capers and a few prawns on there as well. Then it would be a dover sole grilled on the bone with a portion of green beans. And if I wasn't dieting or looking after myself, my favourite pudding would be bread and butter pudding with custard, ice cream and clotted cream all together!

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

To be silent is to be complicit.

We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.

A new project can offer you a new challenge.

The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.

I don't see myself as a one-man show.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

I play for peace and love.

Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.

Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.

It's important for every child to have a bit of a naughty streak.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

My father was a person who always allowed me to do what I wanted but he told me you want to go to a stock market, first get yourself qualified. So, I qualified myself as a chartered accountant and my dad said what do you want to do? I said I want to go to the stock market. He asked what will you do? I said I invest.