You can have the most wonderful product in the world, but if people don't know about it, it's not going to be worth much. There are singers in the world with voices as good as Frank Sinatra's, but they're singing in their garages because no one has ever heard of them. You need to generate interest, and you need to create excitement.

Donald Trump

The correct behaviour for an advisor is to question everything, produce nothing, and talk at the right time.

Thomas Jefferson

Executive advisors are people who borrow your watch to tell you the time, and then don't give it back.

Robert Townsend

At seventy four I sold, for the sum of two million dollars, my fried chicken business, which I'd started at the age of sixty five, when I was getting ready to live out my days on social security.

Colonel Sanders

Take away all the men over fifty, and the world would stop turning.

Henry Ford

People are always amazed by the fact that I didn't start McDonald's before I was 52 years old, and that I was an  overnight success. But I was just like so many people in the entertainment business who practice their routine for years with hardly any notice, and then suddenly find themselves in the spotlight of stardom. I did achieve success from one day to the next, that's true, but my 30 years of preparation were like a long, long night!

Ray Kroc