This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about...
I think that any business that thinks that the transaction is 'you give me money and I give you food, next, you give me money and I give you food, next,' without understanding that people deeply want...
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Good design is good business.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.
Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.
If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.
Every leader is different. Every bench is different. Every business is different. So while the complexities change, the work of coaching stays the same: keep your clients at the center of the work,...
A good golfer's métier is his or her golfing skill. A great golfer's métier is his or her golfing skill, coupled with the mastery of good sportsmanship, rendering him or her an ambassador for the...
If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company...
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
During my time in the military it was always preached that complacency could kill you, literally. Complacency - a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. In your...
Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the...
When you're busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.
They'd only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place
You gotta spend money to make money
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about...
In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.
Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big {halfway will not do}, and do it better than most, right from the start.
Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves...
If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....