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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 don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always hated modeling. It's superficial and fake, and I hate to have to care about what I look like. I get a pimple and freak. The whole business is all about selling beautiful girls' faces and bodies, so how can there be anything intelligent or nice about that except for the girl who makes money?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know, I don't enjoy the business bit of it at all. Anything that's not the acting. It's all sort of like pulling teeth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather, who brought me up, was a coal miner. I visited the mines with him. I remember it vividly. It was horrible. I'm glad I didn't go into the family business.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Math people are math people. When you approach them with investments and business, they don't just ask the soft questions but eventually get to the hard questions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020