16 Filem Bisnes Berdasarkan Kisah Benar Yang Mesti Ditonton Oleh Usahawan

Do not give up whatever happens, if we give up then we are finished for sure

I don’t know how to play golf … neither do I play in the horse race … but I am a strong player in my business

I don’t want them bribed, Jack. I want it done legally. I want them bought.

…there is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him?

God created us all, Shelly. He doesn’t make mistakes.

You know how you survive? You make people need you. You survive because you make them need what you have. And then they have no where else to go.

You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.

So you listen to me and you listen well. Are you behind on you credit card bills? Good, pick up the phone and start dialing! Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Does your girlfriend think you’re fucking worthless loser? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!

People want to go online and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around, maybe it’s someone you just met at a party. Eduardo, I’m not talking about a dating site, I’m talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.

A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a specified price at a future date… Alright, um… It’s like if I agree to sell you this cup of cappuccino, which I don’t yet own, at 45 cents a month from now, if I can buy the cappuccino at say, 43 cents, I make a profit. If the price goes the other way, I have to pay more and I lose. It’s timing, it’s buying and selling at the right moment. Sometimes expresso might be the best deal, or salt or pepper.

When I was a boy, I used to, uh, used to read all about Edison and the Wright Brothers, Mr. Ford. They were my heroes. ‘Rags to Riches’ – that’s not just the name of a book. That’s what this country was all about. We invented the ‘free enterprise’ system, where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to – if he came up with a better idea about anything, there’s no limit to how far he could go. I grew up a generation too late, I guess, because now the way the system works, the loner, the dreamer, the crackpot who comes up with some crazy idea that everybody laughs at, that later turns out to revolutionize the world – he’s squashed from above before he even gets his head out of the water because the bureaucrats, they’d rather kill a new idea than let it rock the boat! If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he’d be thrown in jail for sailing a kite without a license! It’s true.

I ask myself often times why so many companies subscribe to corporate social responsibility. I’m not sure it’s because they necessarily want to be responsible in an ultimate way, but because they want to be identified and seen to be responsible.

See, ya are what ya are in this world. That’s either one of two things: Either you’re somebody, or you ain’t nobody.

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hardwork… family… never forgetting where we came from.

You’re right. Every day there’s people shooting each other. You know what I do when I see that? I look to see what guns they’re using and I think to myself, why not my guns?

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.