Bigs Quote by Walther Rathenau

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building…

— Jeffrey Skilling

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or…

— Chuck Berry

I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in…

— Jeffrey Skilling

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

— Leo Baekeland

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that…

— Sean Connery

I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted…

— Masayoshi Son

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories.…

— Albert Speer

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

— Andy Murray

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

— Rick Atkinson

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

— Victor Pinchuk

In 1987, Merrill Lynch asked me to open a Swiss capital markets operation. I was 27. In hindsight, I was lucky enough to start…

— Sergio Ermotti