- Want
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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
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil.
- Checking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
- Great Principle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020