American Businessman Quotes

Walt Disney

Steve Jobs

Thomas Edison

Bill Gates

Warren Buffett

Sam Altman

Mitt Romney

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Fairfax M. Cone

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer.

I'm optimistic that, over time, AI models can be taught to distinguish fact from fiction.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George P. Shultz

An alternating-current high-voltage wire gets loose, it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe. Can't develop more than one hundred and ten volts. Working on alternating current is a complete waste of time.

Said to Nikola Tesla

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

We face serious risk. We face existential risk. The challenge that the world has is how we're going to manage those risks and make sure we still get to enjoy those tremendous benefits. No one wants to destroy the world.

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

A bride burns her bridges, having fallen in love, and drowns in marriage.

What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.

Liberals love the first amendment until you say something they don't agree with.

Donald Trump Jr.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything.

To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

What I saw generically on the pro-biotech side was the attitude that the technology was good and that it was almost immoral to say that it wasn't good because it was going to solve the problems of the human race and feed the hungry and clothe the naked. And there was a lot of money that had been invested in this, and if you're against it, you're Luddites, you're stupid. There was rhetoric like that even here in this department. You felt like you were almost an alien, disloyal, by trying to present an open-minded view on some of the issues being raised. So I pretty much spouted the rhetoric that everybody else around here spouted; it was written into my speeches.