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See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Short-term can be terminal.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.

Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset.

Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.

So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

So little done, so much to do.

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.

Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.