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Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do.
Sep 17, 2025
I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.
It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the flavor of the company, just the priorities and the way you deal with everything.
I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.
Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.
I'm a business person at heart.
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.
I have always been a business person.
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!
The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama. So that's kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would've said, "I don't have any politics. I'm a business person." Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
I have sometimes, probably, forgotten - and I know I have - to pat the back of someone or said thank you enough times or maybe even once sometimes I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person.If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
For me with "The Apprentice," it kind of blew out my business brain. I don't really think of myself as a business person. I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it's quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.