- 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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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there is anything unusual about a business losing money in certain years.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet represented a really important tool that would be used by every business out there to some extent. But for the vast majority of companies to say, 'We're an Internet company,' is a little bit like saying, 'We're a fax company because we have a fax machine.'
- Nov 07, 2020
No praying, it spoils business.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. My reward comes in the doing of it.
- Defiance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a businessman because I am good at business. But big cats are my first love.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing is a business. It's about squeezing every last dollar out of every available source, and the most vulnerable source is the author. No clearer proof of that exists than the 'standard' book contract.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
- Beard
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- Nov 07, 2020