Business Quotes
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I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
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In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
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Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.
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I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.
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If you want to build a business, build the people.
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Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.
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Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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There is more to life than show business.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
