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In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union.

In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

Innovation without insight is failure.

In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

Insults are the business of the court.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.

In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.

In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing access to capital to grow a business, creating a new paradigm for medical research, or pioneering innovative approaches to education: Empower the most talented people in each field and encourage them to pursue their passions.

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.