- Military
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could put Jesus' face on the cover that it would do really well on the newsstands. So every year, they would put Jesus' face on the newsstand. There was a formula there.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies are successful and which ones are failures. If I adopt a business plan that doesn't line up with Google's, then they're not going to reward me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020