There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company. — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you. — Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg Copy Share Image
“Is YOUR brand consistent and congruent with your desired outcomes?” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
“Selling is simply having a discussion, where the goal is to discern how you can best serve the prospect.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
Many significant stock-price inefficiencies can occur when a company is spun off. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
These headwinds are a strengthening US currency, rising nominal and real bond yields and a continuing erosion in investor faith. — Morgan Stanley Analysts Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little… — William O'Neil Copy Share Image
During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Overall, while the Rovi entertainment store is a nice stand-alone offering, more importantly, however, it is also a part of our total… — Alfred Amoroso Copy Share Image
Sleeping at night is not a specialty of entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur who is sleeping soundly, something bad is happening to that person;… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for… — Olaf Carlson-Wee Copy Share Image
The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Extraverted Feelers make fine salespeople who empathize with their customers, but so do Introverted Thinkers, who carefully listen to their customers without… — Otto Kroeger Copy Share Image
“The emotional attachment that links customers to your product, as opposed to any other, translates into sustainable growth. Here are some basic… — Fast Company Copy Share Image
“To enable lending to proceed when the IMF’s sustainability criteria were not met, its bureaucrats designed the “systemic risk waiver.” It was… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Safeway developed a successful campaign in the United States to grow sales from light shoppers and increase sales from heavy shoppers. They… — Greg Thain 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
“There are two keys to this entire sequence. The first is knocking over the head pin, taking the beachhead, crossing the chasm… — Geoffrey A. Moore 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
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
