Businessman Quotes

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

It's inevitable that the company come back.

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

You don't adjust. You just dominate.

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'L

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.