“People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.”
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“All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.”
“Your margin is my opportunity.”
“From thought to doubt to idea to doubt to pitch to doubt to acceptance to doubt to preparation to doubt to execution...”
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“Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.”
“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”
“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.”
“I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.”
“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'”
“Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.”
“I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.”
“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.”
“I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.”
“How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.”
“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”
“You have to be a great writer to work here, in every single position, because the majority of our communication is written, primarily because a lot of us work remotely but also because writing is quieter.”
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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
“Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.”
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”