Startup's biggest enemy is perfection. Perfection takes time. Time takes money. No money means checkmate, game over. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
We market to attract new business. But the one sitting in front of you AT THIS MOMENT is your best ever chance… — Hania Whitfield Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“Just remember, you could be that nasty customer one day. How would you like to be treated.” — Cinder Rella Copy Share Image
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries. — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a… — Al Ries Copy Share Image
“1. 60 percent to existing customers 2. 30 percent to qualified prospects 3. 10 percent to the universe of people you’ve never… — James Dillehay Copy Share Image
The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“Supporting her entrepreneurial goals goes beyond financial assistance—it’s about showing that you’re her partner in every sense, willing to stand by her… — Devolis Newburn Copy Share Image
What the U.S. does is it continues to print money when the economic situation gets difficult. This is what happened in the… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“The Warm Welcome of Hospitality. Walt Disney World is the epitome of world-class customer service. Employees must be hyper-vigilant of spatial orientation… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
In a crisis, stocks of financial companies are great investments, because the tide is bound to turn. Massive losses on bad loans… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Real-time marketing is not for everyone. To take advantage of it, you need to have a clear idea of what it is… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“Yes, but what happens to the company, in particular a public company on the stock exchange?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marc Andreesen puts it, “Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”[” — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world. — Phil Libin Copy Share Image
The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run,… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy. — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental. — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Copy Share Image
I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Businesses should focus on solving problems, putting the customer first, delivering value - not gimmicks - and growing in a sustainable manner. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“In short, a customer feedback program should be viewed not as “market research” but as an operating management tool.” — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
“A product can be differentiated from the competition by creative advertising and promotion, even if competing products are physically identical.” — Steven Silbiger Copy Share Image
Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
