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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
- Half Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.
- Ask
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly heralded as a tremendous leap forward in our ability to supplement nature by providing high-nutrient foods.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our job as a business is not to promote a political agenda. That's not what we do.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen an unprecedented dispersion of authority, such that 'a person like you' is now one of the most credible spokespersons on business, along with technical and academic experts.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the wake of the Great Recession, most business leaders have tended to focus on their enterprise and short-term performance. The time for that narrow focus is over.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern, effective leadership means moving beyond the 'grand illusion' to engage the mass population and to align business with societal goals.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't, nor should we try, to influence who our employees vote for, but facilitating their involvement in civic action is better for business, better for our people, and better for our government institutions.
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- Nov 07, 2020