Henry Bessemer Quotes

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

I've never made a film that lost money.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.