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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are an expensive business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's gotten more open and easy to create a business on the Internet. That's a really awesome thing for entrepreneurs and for the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice, it's get involved in any and every aspect of the business that affords itself to you.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
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- Nov 07, 2020