- People
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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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!
- Promotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.
- Business Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach - those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply - and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?
- Certain Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I look at it, competing at a high level, whether that's business, art or film, athletics, anything you do, there's a certain way to go about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020