Business Quotes
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Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.
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For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
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I'm the third generation of my family in the film business, and I grew up with a deep passion for movies. I made my own Super 8 films when I was a kid and always loved the editing process.
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
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Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.
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The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.
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Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them.
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Unlike members of Congress, Big Business knew what the WTO agreements contained. That's because corporate lobbyists helped draft them.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.
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My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
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Being a social entrepreneur is a balancing act between growing and sustaining a business while also growing the company's ability to give back.
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I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
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Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
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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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The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
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Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.
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You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
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Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!
