Charles William Eliot Quotes
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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We're all working together; that's the secret.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam.
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
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You can't regulate a soul into a business.
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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.
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'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
