- Big
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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
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
- Bad Taste
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody got into the rugged outdoors business and into lifestyle merchandising and so forth and so on. And everybody was getting into catalogs and e-commerce and - you name it. It was just intense.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left in the end.
- Advertising
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
What helps people, helps business.
- Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more followers you have, the more you can promote your movie. You know? It's all, like, a business thing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020