- Useless
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.
- Nov 07, 2020
You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.
- Entertainment Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether Amazon is good at making and sustaining an entertainment business remains to be seen. But they certainly are 100% focused every day on optimizing the consumer experience and reducing friction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020