- Experience
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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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted the business to dictate my life. I'm sure I've sacrificed and missed out on a lot of stuff, but I don't know what that stuff is, so I just raised kids, and I wanted to be around for that.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.
- Down The Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strength of the dollar has historically been tied to the strength of the U.S. economy and the faith that investors have in doing business in America.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020