- 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
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But instead of trying to get a superstar to support your business, try seeking out a local celebrity instead.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is imperative that we set the national example and make it clear that companies seeking to do business in New York City cannot be allowed to treat their workers like second-class citizens.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
- Dying
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020