Businessman Quotes

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

Personally, it was hard to see Emmitt in red.

Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.

Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.

I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure.