- Pride
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.
- Economic System
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are emotional relationships in any business.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.
- Business World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020