Business Quotes
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Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.
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It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.
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I'm done in this business, that's for sure.
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I like business and personal life to be distinct.
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My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
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I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.
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There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.
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I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
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To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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I always consult my father before I take on a project. Not just me - even my brother goes to Dad and speaks to him of his business ideas. Dad has an amazing business acumen, and it would be foolish not to take his advice. Plus, he's our dad at the end of the day, and he would want to see us succeed. He always gives us the best advice.
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The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.
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Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.
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My personal experience with companies in the PayPal ecosystem taught me that a superb engineering culture is indispensable to building a winning business.
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All of man's work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.
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I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
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With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
