American Businessman Quotes

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

Alex Faickney Osborn

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Herbert V. Prochnow

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

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.

You can increase conversion rates and return on investment (ROI) by several times by making PPC landing pages extremely relevant.

Money alone cannot build character or transform evil into good. It cries for full partnership with leaders of character and good will who value good tools in the creation and enlargement of life for Man.

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

George Ellwanger

For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.

The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

James P. Gorman

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

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy- then down the road we go.

The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

Elliott White Springs

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.

Gurbaksh Chahal

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way