Business Quotes
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
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As a general rule, I am very passionate about any business that I engage in.
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A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and military secrets but also to pillage the most valuable business information from international competitors and pass it on to domestic industries to help them out-innovate and out-negotiate their rivals.
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The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
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In a free market capitalist system, 'price signals' are everything. Prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the free market, and these prices are broadcast from the exchanges, reaching all corners of the economy - where they are used to transact business.
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We're very much in the people business in that there are two important groups you have to work with: customers and employees.
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Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.
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I think more and more business leaders are becoming aware of the impact of the government in their success.
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Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
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Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations.
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As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.
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In a business, you've got to move on.
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I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.
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Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.
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In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.
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Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
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As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
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I'm not laughing at you. ... I'm laughing at the whole stupid business. We face the biggest threat in our history and they give me a helmet too big,and you a helmet too small, and tell us we can't exchange them. It's too much. Really.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.
