- I Am
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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.
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- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my entrepreneurial journey right out of college. At the age of 21, I incorporated my first business: a PR firm based in New York City.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
These issues of gender equity and diversity have been ongoing conversations throughout the decades. I remember even when I was just starting in the business in the 1980s. It's not just Hollywood's problem. This is systemic. It's in our country, so what happens in Hollywood is that everything's just magnified because it's out there in the public.
- Thank You
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020