- People
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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
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020