- Musicians
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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
- Panic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comparing the Trump administration to the Nazis may be a stretch, but many business leaders are concerned that stirring up deep-seated racial and nationalist animosities could be destabilizing, leading to riots, property damage and widespread civil unrest reminiscent of the late 1960s.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Trump had no political or military experience, the traditional routes to high political office. Virtually his only qualification was his business career, and a checkered one at that, considering his own brush with personal bankruptcy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I got turned on to charter schools. It's a business model. Every employee and every teacher will be monitored by performance.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the Royal Rumble. I would love to do Wrestle Mania in New Orleans, because I had so many matches there over the years working for Mid-South. I was in the ring with Muhammad Ali in the Superdome. To close it there would be great.
- Nov 07, 2020