Business Quotes
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Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.
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Cycling is a business.
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Having witnessed the success of Acadian Ambulance firsthand over the years, I became a champion for the employee stock ownership plan business model. This was easy to do based on the evidence that employee stock ownership plans are reliable, high-performing sources of retirement security.
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I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.
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I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.
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I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.
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A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
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The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
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And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
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A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
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It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say to her, 'Whatever you do, never leave me your business.'
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At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.
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There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.
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The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.
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There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
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Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
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Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
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Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
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In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.
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Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
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Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.
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When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.
