We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom. — Sumner Redstone Copy Share Image
Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or… — Kevin Stirtz Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable with taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.” — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“Personalized interactions greatly improve customer service and let customers know that your company cares about them and their problems.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period. — Katrina Lake Copy Share Image
“The first customer ship date does not mean the company understands its customers or how to market or sell to them.” — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Fannie Mae has traditionally only bought and sold mortgages. But when a loan held by the company goes into foreclosure, Fannie Mae… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are. We're all certainly responsible for what we do, but failing doesn't make… — Howard A. Tullman Copy Share Image
Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going… — Jay S. Walker Copy Share Image
There is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Don’t… — Richard Dennis Copy Share Image
So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“At the end of World War II, the average holding period for a stock was four years. By 2000, it was eight… — Scott Patterson Copy Share Image
“Rule #1: You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich,… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Branding Through Customer Service Over the years, the number one driver of our growth at Zappos has been repeat customers and word… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
“bank gives some poor schmuck a mortgage at 100% the value of his property. No deposit. The bank sells the debt off… — Nick Stephenson Copy Share Image
“If you understand the revenue concentration in a few key competitors (or the lack thereof), you get a sense of how much… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
The ways PE firms are making serial acquisitions, each individual acquisition is under the radar, but in aggregate they roll up the… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
“Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.” — Joseph C. Kunz Jr Copy Share Image
There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong. — Josh Kopelman Copy Share Image
Companies that are closest to the customers are the ones who are going to lead the industry. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency. — Mitch Joel Copy Share Image
“Today’s innovators need to figure out how to build working relationships with customers who feel that they too have a stake in… — Nicholas Ind Copy Share Image
Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not – you're the product, — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
