“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.”— Mark Cuban, inc.com
“I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.”— Mark Cuban, books.google.com
“I care about what you can do. I care about what you’ve done lately. Because this is a cross-country run, it’s not a 100 yard dash; one quick race is not a business career.”— Ross Perot, logomaker.com
“Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.”— Ross Perot, ranker.com
“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.”— Ross Perot, ranker.com
“Richard, I'm an independent businessman. Emphasis on "independent." And "business." And "man," come to think of it.”— Mike Judge, Elrich Bachmann, T.J Miller, imdb.com
“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”— Phil Knight, inc.com
“I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.”— Bob Dole, edition.cnn.com
“A problem in one business is exactly what a premium conglomerate should be able to shrug off.”— Drake Bennett, bloomberg.com
“YouTube won't demonetize Logan Paul & Twitter won't ban Trump because both are good for business. There's no good or bad in an Attention Economy - only more.”— Kevin McShane, twitter.com
“I don't lie to myself and I don't hold on to a loser.”— Young Il Kim, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com
“The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have."”— Willie Mays, successories.com
“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.”— Willie Mays, baseball-almanac.com
“If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“Apple, which has come under major criticism for building much of its popular products in China, announced a sweeping set of moves partially tied to the recent tax bill, including paying $38 billion in taxes from profits made overseas and opening a second corporate campus.”— Jefferson Graham, usatoday.com
“There is a systematic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear … that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“I don't think I'm wired to be the CEO of a public company. That doesn't mean I can't, from an entrepreneurial standpoint, come up with an idea that truly was like a horse that wanted to run and I was the guy holding it back. At a certain point, it's not necessarily responsible to remain an emergency…”— Danny Meyer, forbes.com
“The answer is stop concentrating on success. Instead, focus your team on deserving success. It sounds like a semantic change, but it’s far more than that. Shifting your focus to deserving – the sale, the account, the client’s agreement, the budget increase – means you are now talking about (and rewa…”— Doug Weaver, getthedrift.com
“YouTube won't demonetize Logan Paul & Twitter won't ban Trump because both are good for business. There's no good or bad in an Attention Economy - only more.”— Kevin McShane, twitter.com
“In fact, when we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.”— Warren Buffett, berkshirehathaway.com