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- Nov 07, 2020
Business Quotes
On risk, reinvention and the realities of business.
These quotes cover business from a few honest angles: the risk small operations take on hiring, breaking into an industry you weren't trained for, and how far an entire business can shift over the years. For more, see our Businessman quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a career shift. I went to graduate school in computer science, and I began developing educational technologies - in particular, technologies to engage children in creative learning experiences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel problem in the world of education. In too many educational settings, teachers simply 'inform' or 'instruct' learners, rather than providing learners with opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
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- Nov 07, 2020