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One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

One of the things I have learned over 26 years in the business is that the most productive place to focus new business efforts on is current clients. Think about it you have the relationship, you have inside knowledge of the company, the people and often, the brand, so it's a much less diverting exercise. Simply put, the odds of getting a higher share with current clients is much better than getting in the front door with new ones.

One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you’re doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don’t do this.

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you provide careers - that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.

Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.