- 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
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The One Ford plan drives the business to get PGA, Profitable Growth for All, meaning that every year we increase the profits and cash flow. So how do we do that? We serve all the markets around the world with a complete family of vehicles and use the One Ford Plan.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a week that goes by that I don't have a dream that I am back in the business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020