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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Research can trap you into the past.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

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

Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

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.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

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

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

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.

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

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.

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

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

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

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

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