- Intelligence
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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
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, my business is my life.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
- Nov 07, 2020
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
- Difficult Task
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.'
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Government is not show business.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our favorite holding period is forever.
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- Nov 07, 2020