Famous quotes by Businessman

"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason"

"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope"

"All some folks want is their fair share and yours"

"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity"

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"

"The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it"

"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows"

"I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism"

"I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me"

"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here"

"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway"

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price"

"We will not know unless we begin"

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel"

"No authority is higher than reality"

"It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there"

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning"

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters"

"Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero"

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG"

"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes"

"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes"

"Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial"

"Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article"

"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people"

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time"

"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does"

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn"

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year"