“After all, you’ll be selling to people. You need to know how to reach them, interrupt them, and make a difference in… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal… — Laurence Kotlikoff Copy Share Image
Marketing is every bit of contact your company has with anyone in the outside world. Every bit of contact. That means a… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
If you're in business and you make a sales call and that lead doesn't buy from you, you don't sit there all… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information,… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
P&G started in 1837, Nestle in 1857. These companies have been around for so long because they are in tune with society.… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to start out small. You see tech companies selling for millions, but you shouldn't be afraid to start small… — Shawne Merriman Copy Share Image
If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The Panic of 1819 exerted a profound effect on American economic thought. As the first great financial depression, similar to a modern… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept… — Stephen B. Shepard Copy Share Image
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Management has failed miserably at creating increased value for shareholders. Indeed, despite some recent short-term gains, which actually only put us back… — Roy O. Disney Copy Share Image
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“little known and not fully understood; fundamentally questionable on the surface; controversial, unseemly or scary; deemed inappropriate for “respectable” portfolios; unappreciated, unpopular… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear… — Carol White Copy Share Image
If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
[What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you… — William Forsyth Sharpe Copy Share Image
Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst -… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Keep your money in the first place. Let's make our companies competitive and let's make good business decisions dominate their decision making,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
You are allowed to do this - don't worry about the rules, don't worry about getting into trouble, your job is to… — John E. Pepper, Jr Copy Share Image
The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
We're a small part of this ecosystem. When we go to a school and talk about investment banking, they are these monster… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
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