The first thing you need in order to make a business viable is to preserve a cash flow. I made sure I didn't have any financial backing or support.

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

If you're not out testing what's complementary to your brand, you're not making the most of your income potential.

The advantage of consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, with a larger number of customers, which over time become more predictable. The advantage of enterprise companies is they...

In our business we don't mind if a price of a ticket goes down; our job is to get as many bums in seats as possible.

Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers.

Part of how we decide how we allocate our media is we have fairly sophisticated ways of measuring our return on marketing spend, which helps us best analyze the most effective way and medium in which...

If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to...

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

When you buy a company that's been on its butt you raise a lot of money, you instantly put new management in place, but that's the end of the glory for three to five years, grinding it out one day...

When I see some of the work in the commercial PC sector, some of our top focus is in India.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of...

The idea is to recruit in a closed environment, rather than listening to the press or getting distracted by conflicting agents' claims. We try and make cold decisions based on information.

If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important...

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

Feedbacks are means for brands to look back.

Quality products and personalized attention secures retail customers.

Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.

Fail hard, fail fast and fail often is the only way to get involved with real innovation in this fast changing world. Instead, most companies are trying to prevent failure at all cost, which makes...

Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.

Even when the economy isn't doing so well, people will still need good products and services. When you build a business around products and services that people will always need, then find innovative...

If you take the approach of "earning" your customers' business every day and treating them well, they're less likely to try someone else.

Marketing and promoting doesn't come down to the likes, the pins, the plus ones, the followers, the fans, the friends, the views, or the plays online. Marketing and promoting comes down to the...

The proprietary advantage once enjoyed by companies who assembled teams under their own roofs and used them only on their own products has been surrendered in the rush to attain some semblance of...