- Family
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner shared the view that they shouldn't be in the business of bailouts, but you know, you're not in the business of bailouts until you frankly think you need to be.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when I was 11, and thereafter, we often tagged along on my father's European business trips.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe this Emperador Distillers investment in Whyte & Mackay is good for the Philippines as a whole, not only beneficial to our business.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions.
- Nov 07, 2020
One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.
- Easy Access
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- Nov 07, 2020