There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company. — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services — Raphael Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used. — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
When customers express their appreciation of how hard you work to provide excellent customer service — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions. — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
Constituent services for Hoosiers are like customer service was to me in the private sector. — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially. — David Dreman Copy Share Image
Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear. — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the… — Bill Lipschutz Copy Share Image
If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely… — Zhu Rongji Copy Share Image
We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them,… — Cathy O'Brien Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“that is subject to accelerated revenue recognition as a result of aggressive management estimates is one that has “multiple deliverables.” In this… — Howard M. Schilit Copy Share Image
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Marketing experts see today as two separate ages. One requires the age-old principles of patience and commitment for the eventual profit. The… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
The real estate interests and banks are in a kind of symbiosis. They're the largest-growing part of the economy. This is the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance. — Martin Mayer Copy Share Image
“Recall Sergio Zyman’s definition of marketing (more stuff to more people for” — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“(Basel Accords) to set capital ratios. Under these guidelines, the” — John A. Allison Copy Share Image
Branding is the process of connecting good strategy with good creativity. — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
“Your job as an entrepreneur is to be an innovator and a builder of systems.” — Allan Dib Copy Share Image
