If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become...

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill...

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, ‘historically’ meaning now for a good ten years.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you’ll never build an enduring business.

You don’t even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you’re really trying.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

You can’t let yourself be pushed around. You can’t live in fear. That’s no way to live your life.

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...

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn’t even know there was a show business!

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself – your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15%...

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy...

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it’s no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars....

If you’re soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don’t mind kicking sand in your face.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets.

It appears from this information that the river is not the Multnomah, a southern branch of the Columbia, which I first supposed it to be.

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

There’s the growth of bandwidth, and that is a fundamentally positive trend for us, because it allows us to deliver better and better experiences.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

Since I’m a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers...

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end...

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose… the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star. And I’m not that good a rock star.

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

If you can’t find the next McDonald’s, I’ll find the next McDonald’s. But it’s vital to be with people who with looking for ’em, because they do exist. They are created.

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I’ve bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don’t know when you can...