Famous Quotes: Business

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
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So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
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Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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I hate show business.
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Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
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The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
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As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
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We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
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Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
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Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
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