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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.

The most successful people in life have the best information

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

The nature of business is swindling.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.

The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.