An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above… — Sheldon Adelson Copy Share Image
I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports… — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In macroeconomic theory, there is this argument that what the Fed does has no effect on unemployment, no effect on investment, no… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Businesses and households react to lower rates by investing and spending more. Lower rates also support the prices of housing and financial… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
“What would you say if I told you that we look at one another like we’re commodities being traded on the open… — Gregg Michaelsen Copy Share Image
“One customer, from Pittsburg, dined every night in his bedroom on grape-nuts, scrambled eggs and cocoa. Perhaps it hardly matters whether such… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones.… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task . Usually it's best to have two… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist.… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are… — Parker Conrad Copy Share Image
There are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“This is how top investor Warren Buffett does things: “Each deal we measure against the second-best deal that is available at any… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Growth requires risk-taking. If you want to dampen risk and make sure you never have a problem, you do so, but that… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
I always like it when someone attractive to me agrees with me, so I have fond memories of Phil Fisher. The idea… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems… — Michael Seibel Copy Share Image
I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have… — Charles James Copy Share Image
Kauffman Fellows is not necessarily for people just entering the venture industry but for experienced VCs looking to accelerate their growth. The… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need… — David A. Aaker Copy Share Image
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
If you get a flow of credit increasing, as we've seen in the last few years - that flow of credit didn't… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs don’t do most of the work. Entrepreneurs identify the problems, discover the opportunities and then build processes to allow other people… — Mike Michalowicz Copy Share Image
Every time the market has corrected, since 2008, it's always been the Fed that's made the bottom. The Fed has always saved… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Somebody needs to position you and introduce you, but after that, most of the bankers get represented with their large clients; mostly… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into… — Aliko Dangote Copy Share Image
We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
