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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
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.
- Entertainment Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020