First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.
— Milo Yiannopoulos
Pioneering Business First quotations
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale.
If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital.
You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.
I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it.
At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience.
Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
The very first company I started failed with a great bang.
The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience.
Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life.
I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
I'm a big fan of small business ownership.
I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.
If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know.
.. I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends.
Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.
The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix;
in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming.
.. So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business.