The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely. — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind. — Robert Collier 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
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
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
A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty — Eric Ries 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
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
Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Mortgage insurance stocks remained depressed through the end of 2012 amid lingering uncertainty as to whether they had sufficient capital to absorb… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your… — Marc Rich Copy Share Image
Life, especially the life of an early-stage entrepreneur, is full of gigantic ups and downs. Make sure you don't let yourself get… — Chieh Huang Copy Share Image
Make sure you're building your brand early and make sure it's a good brand so in life after basketball, you have an… — Marcus Smart Copy Share Image
If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
“Many hospitality companies follow the "5 and 10 Rule," whereby when a customer is within ten feet of the employee, they should… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“The alchemy that the ratings agencies performed was to spin uncertainty into what looked and felt like risk. They took highly novel… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“How long have you been a financial advisor? At least ten years is what you want to hear. Experience is an important… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
“Hendrick Kganyago Characteristics of the successful entrepreneur Find out if you have the necessary skills to start your business and achieve success… — Hendrick Kganyago Copy Share Image
We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home &… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
“The new structure of the U.S. stock market had removed the big Wall Street banks from their historic, lucrative role as intermediary.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hassan can watch, aghast, as databanks at NASDAQ graph hard data and chart a NASDAQ crash - a sharp fall that alarms… — Christian Bök Copy Share Image
If you have a strong business idea, then it is comparatively easy now to get capital. It is a positive thing that… — Bhavin Turakhia Copy Share Image
I worry all the time that we're going to screw up a customer's offer. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Focus on value because most investors focus on outlooks and trends, — John Templeton Copy Share Image
