- 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
- Embellish
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
- Cadillac
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how angry people on the outside were when you don't perform well, a coach is 10 times what anyone else is feeling. Nothing digs at you more. But that's part of our business.
- Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020