- Opportunity
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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
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
- Glowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.
- Grocery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020