We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor. '
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all.
Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.
But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.
I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.
Execution is the job of the business leader.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.
Capitalism, communism. . . it's all garbage.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
