There's a lot of ignorance in our business. . . Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.
There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business. . he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
War what is it good for? It's good for business.
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
And I really believe good journalism is good business.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?
If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.