"With physical and financial capital having been replaced by human capital as the economy’s driving force, the knowledge, skills and experience of people have become this country’s scarce resource."
"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."
"If you have money more than your needs, it will be better to create jobs rather than to save in banks or give it to beggars."
"Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row."
"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on."
"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on."
"I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else."
"My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge."
"Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce."
"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"
"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."
"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
"To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them."
"What helps people, helps business."
"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."
"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset."
"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime."
"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
"In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner."
"Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business."
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
"You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing."
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers."
"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."