The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying?
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.
Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.