- Know
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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
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they've had.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
- Downplay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people like myself where we've got resorts, or we're in the hospitality business, and we just can't make money because you're paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.
- Lifetime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.
- Australia
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020