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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

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

If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

If you were charged with fixing the U.S. auto industry, how would you do it? The guys who run the auto companies are out of touch with their customers and their employees. They ride to work in their limousines. They go up in their elevators and lock themselves in their offices. They don't walk out into the plants. They wouldn't even drive in the neighborhoods where their employees live. They give themselves big bonuses when the company isn't making any money. I'd make them get involved with the people who are building the cars. They've got to become real people.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.

I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.

I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

I hate show business.

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is just a learning curve.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.