“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”

– Warren Buffett

“It’s easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back.”

– Seth Godin

“If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don’t need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.”

— Warren Buffett

“For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.”

– Richard Branson, founder Virgin Group

“Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.”

– Michael LeBoeuf

“Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”

— Sam Walton

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”

Peter F. Drucker

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Men (Little Women, #2)

“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I’ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way