The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keeping customers is about the experience, and the employees control the culture and temperature of the business. Never forget that. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community. — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing. — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
“Based on our research, anything less than 1000 SKUs or more than 40 000 in a store can present more negatives than positives… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired. — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We have tacos and burritos and things that sound Mexican. But to me, it's about great-tasting food in an atmosphere sympathetic to… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Traditional consumer finance has been unfair for decades. Banks have had a monopoly on financial services and have been able to overcharge… — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
“Another lesson I learned early is that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old… — Edwin Lefèvre Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries, there have been many deflations throughout the world. Almost all of them have been good ones precipitated… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean… — Amah Lambert Copy Share Image
“Without deposit banking modern economies would be impossible. Banks are not only a means of safeguarding money, but also a method of… — Thomas F. Madden Copy Share Image
“We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market… — Warren Buffet Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
“Because retail brands are barely differentiated, they are relatively fragile when compared to the largest manufacturer brands, despite having, in general, much… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company. — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary. — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by… — Richard Driehaus Copy Share Image
The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it,… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“That’s me, keeping things bitchy from open to close.” I turned around and gave him my customer service smile.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business. — Jim Cantalupo Copy Share Image
“Trend markets with large movements in an upward or downward direction over an extended period of time. The trend markets see major… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
I think when markets go up and there is no manipulation in markets and people question the market going up and it… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion. — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person. — Bernard Madoff Copy Share Image
Our long-standing philosophy that our diverse suppliers must provide high-quality goods and services at competitive prices adds great value to our business. — Debra L. Reed Copy Share Image
Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns. — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
