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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
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 2001, my first start-up was mentioned in the 'New York Times' and 'USA Today.' I figured that would drive thousands of visitors to the site and tons of new business. Instead, only a handful of people visited our site, and not much business came of it at all.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.
- Nov 07, 2020
One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.
- Nov 07, 2020
I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting a business is similar to an athletic endeavor, like serving a tennis ball. Telling you how to do it is useless. You actually get better through a combination of practice, coaching, and repetitions with money on the line.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent time in the coastal Carolinas and have seen what small business development has done to maintain the wetlands and reestablish the fisheries and secure jobs for the people that make their living off the water.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020