- 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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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I?
- Clinging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
- Esteemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020