- Money
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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
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be the CEO of a large public company but realize that it's not exactly what they had anticipated, for lots of reasons. One is competition has gotten a lot worse, and more global.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020