Bill Taylor Quotes

Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that’s when the magic happens.

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• I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • People
  • Business
  • Know

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Doing
  • Problems

• Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Now

• Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • America
  • Problems
  • Jamaica

• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Business
  • Information
  • Data

• Decisions are made by those who show up.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Show
  • Decisions

• As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Work
  • Country
  • Business

• I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Good
  • Family
  • Business

• L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Business
  • Creative

• It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Problems
  • Old Age

• It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Business
  • Taken
  • Two

• Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Mood

• There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Real
  • Business
  • Success

• If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • You
  • Decisions

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Dying

• If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Money
  • Teacher

• I'm just propelled by insecurity; that's what really leads me to want to do better.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Insecurity

• You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Writing

• Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that’s when the magic happens.

  

  Bill Taylor
  • Business
  • Problems
  • Decisions