As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases,… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make… — Hilary Knight Copy Share Image
The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
When you're in a losing streak, your ability to properly assimilate and analyze information starts to become distorted because of the impairment… — Bill Lipschutz Copy Share Image
“Consumer prices in August rose just 0.3 per cent from the year before as lower energy and food costs took their toll.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Stock-exchange traders are also in danger. Most financial trading today is already being managed by computer algorithms that can process in a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
“that is subject to accelerated revenue recognition as a result of aggressive management estimates is one that has “multiple deliverables.” In this… — Howard M. Schilit Copy Share Image
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't “get” that are part of the problem. — Donal Daly Copy Share Image
“The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an asshole. That's the first rule of retail.” — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I am enormously proud of how we have transformed the TalkTalk customer experience. — Dido Harding Copy Share Image
Understanding the customer, feeling what they are feeling, seeing what competitors are doing, you end up having a richer sense of the… — John L. Flannery Copy Share Image
I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company). — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
You have to have what your customers need because if you don't have what your customers need, you're not going to have… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
