The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.

We fell in love like nobody’s business. I wish it was everyone’s business, so that I could have made money off it.

I want to start a business making mint-flavored sunshine that comes in a can half full of meow-free rainbows. (Leprechauns sold separately.)

Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.

We’ll have other chip players in this business in another 18 months.

It was on Friday when the center opened that I first know the UN also does business besides peace-keeping around the world. It’s amazing that I can also be a part of it,

If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

The profitability of the business hasn’t been any better than it has been. It is still low margins and price-competitive. The question investors should ask is if Amazon is a retailer or an Internet stock....

We believe that with PNTR, we will be better able to do business. What we would expect to see are improvements in trading and distribution rights, safeguards on our investments and the removal of technical...

It looks like they’re trying to reduce their capital- markets business to try and save their futures and options and commodity business, which is what they’re known for.

I think Sun’s primary business strategy these days is to try and file as many court cases against Microsoft as possible. I think our only point is that Sun should try and focus on making...

While others were dreaming about it – I was getting it done.

I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe...

Overall, we remain impressed with results from the high-end business and expect that the addition of Wynn Las Vegas will help maintain the strong momentum.

I’ve managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

We’re playing all the teams that are right there with us. You can handle your business and control your destiny. That’s what you want to do in September. This is the road trip to do...

Certainly the Peyton Manning deal was not an intelligent business decision if you look at it in the short term, because what you’re doing is writing a check out of your own personal wealth and...

We expect to have market share of 40 percent in the handset business, from our current position of 35 percent,

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial...

Entrepreneur, if your’re going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son.

Through this business he brought what he taught in the classroom out into real life with many of the young people who passed through his door.

At that kind of prices you see a lot more interest in the business. It makes a lot of things more affordable.

Normally at this time people are more directed to religion, doing business is not the priority.

Rita is one big question mark that’s been removed and it’s safer to buy stocks now. Companies that do business in the U.S. are naturally going to be more relieved.

Despite the challenging environment, especially in the home loans business, we delivered solid performance, achieving 12 percent earnings per share growth for the quarter and 14 percent for the year.

Small business couldn’t be more tickled with this bill.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

Individual mortgages are a lucrative business. When floating mortgage rates hover around 5 percent, the bank’s cost is only 1.1 percent on average.

Eat, sleep & Breathe your business to ensure it’s success

Rapidly evolving and newly emerging technologies have forever changed the ways GM shares information and conducts business in the automotive retailing industry. We want to leverage the capabilities of these IT suppliers to help GM...

It started out as a bonus to the retail business. Now, it is really the driver of the entire business.

We were expecting weakness but it came even weaker than we feared. The key thing is business traffic is way off.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy’s numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Idiocy in the modern age isn’t an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It’s a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It’s intellectual masturbation.

If you don’t use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed...

This will go down as the shot heard round the world for the home-audio business. We’ve been trying to reinvent the stereo since we were born, but little companies can’t create new categories by themselves....

We go about our business seriously, but we like to have a good time, too.

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

The DVD sell-through market is big business. The studios are not going to jeopardize the Wal-Mart channel.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

I never thought I’d fail, … The idea is that you just work harder. But in this business, there’s always a chance something goes wrong.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.