- Mother
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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
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
- Gamble
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movie business is a big gamble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
- Confusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020