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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
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the business. If I wanted to get above the plateau that I had reached in the U.K., I had to make that move.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
- Nov 07, 2020
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020