Startup's biggest enemy is perfection. Perfection takes time. Time takes money. No money means checkmate, game over. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can… — Robert D. Arnott 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
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
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
There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Holding losses and hoping to break even is not an investing or trading plan. That is dumb money on suicide watch!” — Fred McAllen Copy Share Image
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Common hedging techniques include shorting stocks, buying put options, writing call options, and various types of leverage and paired transactions. While I… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
“Always remember this: Make it about your customers’ needs. A great utility is something that adds tremendous value to individuals’ lives –… — Mitch Joel Copy Share Image
People, including business leaders, are willing to be open-minded about investment dollars when they know where they are going - and what… — Katie McGinty Copy Share Image
If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Quantitatve easing is NOT going away. Every major country is running a deficit. If they are all net borrowers then who is… — Jeffrey Gundlach Copy Share Image
“I’d thought it strange, after the financial crisis, in which Goldman had played such an important role, that the only Goldman Sachs… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The outside-in discipline requires that you have an explicit customer-based reason for everything you do in the marketplace. Managers need to create… — Barbara Bund Copy Share Image
There are two issues that people sometimes confuse, but they're very closely related. There is the strength and the stability of the… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“give you an example. A bank gives some poor schmuck a mortgage at 100% the value of his property. No deposit. The… — Nick Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The only reason our customers buy from us is because the external problem we solve is frustrating them in some way. If… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Selling strategies by retailers are not all bad news for manufacturers. Discounting big brands makes them exceptionally good value and, when advertised… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We used to write this down by saying, 'move fast and break things.' And the idea was, unless you are breaking some… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“The alchemy that the ratings agencies performed was to spin uncertainty into what looked and felt like risk. They took highly novel… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment. — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The single most important advice I can give anybody is: Learn from your mistakes. That is the only way to become a… — David Ryan Copy Share Image
It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans. — John Kremer Copy Share Image
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make—stories that sell and stories that spread.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. — Michael Nesmith 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
