Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Businessmen - Page 16

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.

At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.

It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.

The Democrats are up to their necks in foreign meddling. Nancy Pelosi took money from Ukraine lobbyists. Chuck Schumer took money from Saudi Arabia and Mexico.

I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.

Quality has no age.

A good collaboration pushes the boundaries of both partners.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

People can't pay you to care. People can't teach you to care. But when you find something that you care about, you give it everything you've got. You never settle. And you are always pushing to learn and be better and support those around you. All I've tried to do in my career is care.

I'm a weirdo.

Since Newcastle I've had a fantastic time at Blackburn and then here, at West Ham.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

When you build the house, you don't start with the roof.

As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.

If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

The only real failure is giving up.

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

Nintendo's mission is to try to make people happy, to try to make people smile.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.

Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.

To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.

Obviously I do have political views - I'm a believer in the free-market economy; I also believe that without competition and respect for human rights there will be no progress because nobody will feel safe and free.

Did I haze the Miz? Hell yes!

There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful.

My hike up the Snake Path at Masada was mystical. The fog rolled in, enveloping the entire mountain.

It all starts with opportunity. You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there's no opportunity behind it, it's going to be a pretty big, uphill battle.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated.

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Change before you have to.

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

Don't think it, ink it.

Technology just means information technology.

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Value Proposition Design is a 'must have' for anyone creating a new venture. It captures the core issues around understanding and finding customer problems and designing and validating potential solutions.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

People hear 'Africa' and they think about charitable commercials, or safari tours and animals. It's our responsibility to help change that perspective.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.