Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Businessmen - Page 3

Details matter. They create depth, and depth creates authenticity.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.

It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.

I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be Catholic, you don't have to be a Christian to work for Blackwater.

Customers want a broad assortment, especially with e-commerce. If you pull up your mobile app to look for something at Walmart, we want you to be able to find it.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.

I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.

Disinformation has always existed. It's not like all of a sudden we've just discovered this new thing called propaganda.

Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There's massive structural advantages to the player who's smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers - the party that understands best the behavior of riders.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

I bought a 1200-year-old Viking bracelet once.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.

The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience.

Brands are all about trust. That trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Stay away from family when you are working on a startup.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.

Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.

Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they'll be here forever.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.

It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.

Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.

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

I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

I like to be a tiger roaming the jungle or an eagle soaring the skies.

It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.

Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.

This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

I think sometimes we forget what we have, and occasionally it's important to remind ourselves.

There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.

If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

When we started Blizzard, we just wanted to make great games. What we realized is that the games we create are really just a framework for communities and human interaction.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can. Red Bull is a platform to celebrate all that humans are capable of accomplishing. They built a lifestyle movement, a brand that sold this product.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.