- 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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- Roots
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
- Simplify
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020