- Nature
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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.
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- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.
- Employer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central bankers have taken an activist turn.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in London, went to the London School of Economics, do a lot of business in London, and have a lot of fun in London.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just gotta try to have fun. It's a business. You just gotta come out there and play hard because you never know when another player might take your spot.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020