“It’s the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.” She” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy. — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship." — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The long-term focus of index funds is a much needed counterweight to the short-termism favored by so many market participants. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
I've done strategic planning, all kind of cash flows, but in fad marketing, it is all really irrelevant. It is marketing by… — Ken Hakuta Copy Share Image
Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
“New brands often gain sales through launch promotion, but find that repeat purchases dwindle, not through technical failure but through lack of… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Our mission is to support people in their life's path or career path, as they define it, and really, to help people… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so they keep coming back. It's not one of the enduring… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
“We found that suppliers of nonstrategic products and services don’t fully appreciate this purchasing task. So when they try to land a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
“Fader: As we’ve discussed, there are sometimes countervailing forces in shopping. Crowds attract shoppers but might make them less likely to actually… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both. — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
I'd rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing. — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations. — Steve Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we… — David Sze Copy Share Image
“A brand is as much an open invitation to complain as it is a promise to deliver” — Simon Anholt Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand.” — Onyi Anyado Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous words in investing are ‘this time it’s different’. Sir John Templeton” — Mikael Krogerus Copy Share Image
The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view. — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong, we launched an Accenture Liquid Studio where we are bringing together end-to-end digital customer experience services for clients. — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem. — Henry Earl Singleton Copy Share Image
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
