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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
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do in business - and in the kitchen, period, I believe - goes from 1940 to 1978. It's the right way. It's the old way.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in business to make money.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly want to continue to be a role model. But I don't think it's necessarily about being a female in our business. I think it's about... my track record, my results.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fashion business got boring. I was working with big companies, but the minute it became too formulaic, I got bored with it. I wanted to do a creative space where I could just make stuff - kind of like an atelier, where I could collaborate with other artists, drape geometric shapes on the body, make cushion covers, or whatever.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020