Amancio Ortega Gaona
"I am the property of my business, not the reverse. "
Friday 28 October 2016
Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Kamprad
"If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees. "
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
"We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water. "
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
"Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. "
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim
"At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining. "
David Koch
David Koch
"I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion. "
Charles Koch
Charles Koch
"The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff. "
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
"If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. "
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. "
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim
"Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. "
David Koch
David Koch
"I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs. "
Charles Koch
Charles Koch
"Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. "
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. "
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. "
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "
Franklin D Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelt
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. "
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
Waqar Vicky
Waqar Vicky
"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. "
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. "
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."
Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
Waqar Vicky
Waqar Vicky
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
Hubert H Humphrey
Hubert H Humphrey
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
John Cleese
John Cleese
"I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation."
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