Business

Taking that first step is your biggest competitive advantage; most people won't do it.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

You need to work like someone's trying to take it all away from you, because they are.

Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated yourself. You should treat your employees like the smart and capable adults they are. Give them the choice to make informed decisions and you will cultivate an environment in which everyone can flourish.

Founder of Virgin Group & British Billionaire Entrepreneur

You are going to have to get out there and sell yourself. Make a fool of yourself – whatever it takes. Make sure you appear on the front page and not the back pages.

Founder of Virgin Group & British Billionaire Entrepreneur

The area under the curve over time is greater if you keep your prices low than if you jack them up to maximise revenue. I'd get kicked out of a business school for saying something like that, but it's true.

Co-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer

You should try and copy everything you possibly can! It's just that if you run out of alternatives, if you run out of options to copy, you will realise that your entire life has conditioned you to not only be a great copier, but to hesitate when copying is no longer an option.

Co-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer

The past 10 days have been 'the most dramatic in Wall Street's 216-year history' seeing Lehman Brothers collapse, AIG fall into critical distress, and the US Federal Reserve creating a c. US$1 Trillion rescue plan to 'save the world'.

While many investors were caught in this crisis, the leading economists in the world saw it coming.

Monetary support for development in itself will not accelerate growth in the real economy to artificial or unsustainable levels. It is how the finance is used – or misused.

Economics professor specializing in entrepreneurship, innovation, and development in Africa

The artificiality and unsustainability comes in when loans are made to customers who cannot repay those loans, and without sufficient regulatory control.

Economics professor specializing in entrepreneurship, innovation, and development in Africa

While participatory culture can create a Wikipedia, it is not likely to produce something like the Star Wars franchise. I don't think that's a problem, because I don't think we have to choose between participatory and top-down culture – both will thrive.

Co-Founder of Wikipedia & Online Encyclopedia Pioneer

Africa is an enormous continent, larger than the US, China and Europe combined. It represents 20% of the global land mass, and only 10% of the world's population. It offers an un-crowded space of opportunities including minerals, natural resources, water and agriculture.

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No industry and indeed no activity at all whether commercial or not should act unethically, or immorally and so the relationship of bioethics, or ethics, to anything it studies is the relationship of authority.

I would suggest that most dollar problems are cyclical, and when the fed reserve raises interest rates, and the business cycle re-enters an upswing, there will be many reasons to buy dollar.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

I don't have to outrun the Tiger, I just have to outrun you. When you look at many of the financial centres such as The City of London, Wall St, and their counterparts, they think of things in Economic terms.

Chief Strategist & Senior Currency Strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" & Self-Help Pioneer