With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
“In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you’re both contrarian and right.” — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy? — James Hunter Copy Share Image
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“I take my investment advice from my dentist, because he’s just as likely to lose me money as a financial advisor.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate… — Christopher McCormick Copy Share Image
“The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because… — Randall E. Stross Copy Share Image
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
“Assume your service is bad. It can’t hurt, and it will force you to improve.” – Harry Beckwith, Selling the Invisible Originally… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Customer service is bad because we allow it to be bad. What do you do when you get bad service? Tell the… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful… — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
Companies doing "business as usual" have to get baseline data on their impact and simultaneously understand what the impacts are. The larger… — Summer Rayne Oakes Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of really crappy bonds in these CDOs,’” said Charlie. They didn’t realize yet that the bonds inside their… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
MindTree has grown into a strong company and has a great leadership team at its helm which can continue to propel the… — Ashok Soota Copy Share Image
I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don’t come out with a great presentation, you’re dead. That’s a… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations. — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you make any trades during the year, keep a record of each transaction for at least three years. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
“So, if consumers are like roaches, then marketers must forever be dreaming up new concoctions for industrial-strength Raid.” — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and employment in the U.S. since… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Segmentation of usage occasion can be used within the same brand via differentiated packaging formats. Coca-Cola” — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
When you know who your customers are, that can give you an edge on the competition. — Alain Bouchard Copy Share Image
