To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing… — Kevin Plank Copy Share Image
“What helps people identify your Super Powers? Instead of hiring a personal PR firm to identify and promote your personal brand, ask… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today, brands are not the preserve of marketing department. Brands are too important to be left to the marketing department - or… — Thomas Gad Copy Share Image
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Lumileds is a highly successful supplier of lighting components to the general illumination, automotive, and consumer electronics markets, with a strong customer… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
When I participate in a Series A deal with VCs, entrepreneur-friendly terms go out the window. VCs remain attached to age-old traditional… — Gil Penchina Copy Share Image
The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
“The simple reason Goldman wasn’t making much of the big money now being made in the stock market was that the stock… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
When you buy a company that's been on its butt you raise a lot of money, you instantly put new management in… — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
“What makes a good salesperson? Let me be clear that it’s not the person who can talk someone into anything. It’s not… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“A manufacturer taking a category-based view understands the role of the category within different chains and store formats, as different retailers have… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger has hired billionaire Warren Buffett as his senior economic advisor. And not to be outdone Gary Coleman announced his senior… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a… — Paul McCulley Copy Share Image
“We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
One should have a wide variety of assets in one's portfolio. And oil, by the way, is a particularly important asset to… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The benefit of the retailer master brand model is that $202 million is a colossal amount of advertising for one brand in… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Salespeople do not operate in a vacuum; there are often cultural and environmental issues beyond their control that severely hamper the opportunity… — Mike Weinberg Copy Share Image
If we can help an advertiser refine a message so it works for our consumers, we should be doing that, but at… — Norman Pearlstine Copy Share Image
“Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When financial sectors are small and capital is mobile, floating exchange rates spell massive currency volatility. When a lot of foreign capital… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
With actively managed funds, people have big behavior problems. With funds that have done well, they put their money in, and when… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“Shelfspace, number of facings, position, local promotion, advertising, information from scanning data and choice of new products are all key assets for… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
