We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
The best vision is insight.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.
Now, there is no business like show business, and there is no publicity like word of mouth. What is word of mouth, you may ask? Well, word of mouth is gold to Hollywood bigwigs, and it equates to box office bonanzas and hit TV shows.
Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast.
Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.
Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan.
