- Genetic Engineering
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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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- Hobbies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
- Banking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an entertainer, that's my business, and yet you hope at some point in your career you will do something that will mean more to people.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in some ways I'm quite lucky to be living in London, there's this certain separation from the movie business. In that way, it's been quite easy to separate acting and going back to a normal life.
- Nov 07, 2020