- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handle everything via email. We've been in the business of automation. We've never really valued full service.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020