- People
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know some people whose father has basically spent their whole inheritance on scammers. He's old; he wants to feel important, like he's doing business, so he goes to his bank and pays out - it's terrifying.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
- Nov 07, 2020
Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some actors who are very good at developing things, who have... 'things in the pipeline.' I am abysmal at that kind of thing, loathe it, and am a terrible planner. Unless I'm showing up on the set and acting, I prefer to have nothing to do with the actual business of being an actor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
- Allocation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.
- Banking
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- Nov 07, 2020