Businessman Quotes

Walt Disney

Steve Jobs

Thomas Edison

Bill Gates

Warren Buffett

Richard Branson

Mitt Romney

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives

Richard Branson

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.

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.

I am going to have a sign put up all over my plant, reading "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

Well, one thing that everybody may not be aware of is how fantastic the CDC has been historically. They're the best in the world. They train themselves in terms of how to communicate, including getting bad news out and getting people to take measures that protect themselves.

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

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

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

Thomas J. Watson

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.

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

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.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

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.

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

George P. Shultz

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

If this planet lasts for another thousand years people will still be talking about the terrible event we are now living through.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

As far as we understand nature, we are become acquainted with the character of God; for the knowledge of nature is the revelation of God.

I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.

The first hundred thousand—that was hard to get; but afterwards it was easy to make more.

John Jacob Astor

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."

While Apple's attempt to control the ecosystem and maintain a closed platform may be good for Apple, developers want more options and customers want to fully access the overwhelming majority of Web sites that use Flash. We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple. … even people inside the distortion field [at Apple] will begin to resent being told half a story.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Chester Barnard

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.