The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
Great companies are built on great products.
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Creativity is an import-export business.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
If you fire people, you fire customers.
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.