- Confidence
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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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- Darwin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is also the chief business registrar for the State of Connecticut.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to provide businesses with more information about business opportunities in Connecticut. That's both to businesses that are here already and also to businesses that are not located here, but might be interested in coming.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad always said, 'Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.' He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Producers do not seem to understand that they are cutting into each other's business. They complete their films at the same time and do not space their releases.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel like a hero - just another person involved in the space business. I'm hoping to encourage young folks to become explorers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020