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...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.
Sep 10, 2025
The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment.
Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.
Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching
It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.
Whatever you're thinking, think bigger.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the Bay Area community. UnGrounded is strong proof of that commitment.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.