Businessman Quotes

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Stay focused on the mission.

You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.

In being strict, you were able to control.

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.

He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.

Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.

It's all about the money.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.