3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
3 December 2020 Igor Sikorsky The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
3 December 2020 Thomas J. Watson Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
3 December 2020 Barbara Corcoran In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
3 December 2020 Erykah Badu But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
3 December 2020 Meg Whitman Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
3 December 2020 Colonel Sanders There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
3 December 2020 Mary Kay Ash Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Baryshnikov No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
3 December 2020 Danica McKellar The camera fails to capture the ‘business’ in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual’s right to build a business.
3 December 2020 Ernie Banks I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
3 December 2020 Isak Dinesen Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
3 December 2020 Jodie Foster But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
3 December 2020 Ron Perlman I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
3 December 2020 Marvin Bower A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
3 December 2020 Harold S. Geneen I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises – but only performance is reality.
3 December 2020 Harry Emerson Fosdick Don’t simply retire from something have something to retire to.
