There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.
One of the things that may get in the way of people. . . is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.
Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.
If you are too proud, you don't do business.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
I think Virgin Blue is still a very promising and exciting business. Now, I know that's not a view that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simply throwing it into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil price events. But we think it is still a very exciting business.
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Good economics is good politics.
The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: Most men would rather die than think. Many do.
But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.