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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
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.
- Courthouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.
- Judgements
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- Nov 07, 2020
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!
- Film Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers practically no salary. I make them partners in the business, only I don't let them share in the efforts of any other man.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020