- Love
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
- Behaviors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
- Nov 07, 2020
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our business is with life, not death.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020