When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Customers are your best teachers. Learning about your customer's beliefs, values, and priorities teaches you which selling points you should emphasize. — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an… — David Duffield Copy Share Image
When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
“The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it’s there. Knowing that you’re facing a Dip is the first step… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Satisfy the deep subconscious needs of your customers - to feel important, to feel valued, respected and worthwhile — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“The best strategic marketing decision you can make is to have a product or business fulfill a real, compelling need for a… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The most highly regarded entrepreneurs are driven by meaning, a vision for greater good that drives them forward. Startups are grueling and… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
I've always been a big believer in diversification for anybody. It's never good to put all of your efforts and all of… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
Consistently playing suited connectors like 8c-7c for raises and reraises will cause big chip swings. If that's what you want, well, strap… — Phil Hellmuth Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Opinion free brands simply will struggle to survive in the future - of that simple reason that we increasingly want to associate… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“Unlike old-fashioned Britain, where Tony Blair recruited Lord Levy to encourage his 'Friends of Israel' to donate their money to a party… — Gilad Atzmon Copy Share Image
That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“The overall U.S. homeownership rate increased from 64 percent in 1994 to a peak in 2004 with an all-time high of 69.2… — Gilad Atzmon Copy Share Image
“When a new company is formed, its founders must have a startup mentality—a beginner’s mind, open to everything because, well, what do… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“To see how transfer of antifragility works, consider two scenarios, in which the market does the same thing on average but following… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
“People and companies have needs. Those of us with sales responsibility represent businesses with potential solutions to those needs. Sometimes those people… — Mike Weinberg Copy Share Image
To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Bear it in mind that when you have no brand, “no brand” is your brand and that’s a negative brand!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity. — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name. — Al Ries Copy Share Image
A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
The key aspect of an index fund is that many of them, not all of them, but many of them are extremely… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
“The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they'll treat the customers right. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image