- Cinema
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's part of how people relate to Fleetwood Mac. In many ways, we've been too open and too truthful about stuff that is really none of anyone's business. I think we were quite naive in the way we related a lot of that truth to people other than ourselves.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bottom line: People in our business are always going to look to find reasons to see the negative in somebody and to become resentful.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation, occasional affection, some good punchlines and anthropological social insight. It's been a good living.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful cable host than he ever was a politician.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020