Blake Mycoskie Quotes

Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.

Blake Mycoskie

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• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Business
  • Truth

• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Long
  • Business
  • Financial

• I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Individual

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Business
  • Creative

• I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • May
  • Business

• My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Different
  • Business

• Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Business
  • House
  • Death

• I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Business
  • Political

• My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Work
  • Business
  • Father

• The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Business

• Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Management

• I know a lot of really good actors - tons, just tons - who I still don't know why they don't work all the time because they're that good. It's just a weird business, and I know a lot of actors who shouldn't be working, but they work all the time.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • People
  • Business
  • Happy

• Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Business
  • Game
  • Interesting

• Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Business
  • Customers
  • Volumes

• You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility

• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Lost
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins

• I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Air
  • Listen
  • Radio

• Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Business
  • Brand
  • Feel Good