Business Quotes
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I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
Jim Barksdale
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You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
S. Truett Cathy
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When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
Josh Turner
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
Barbara Ehrenreich
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
Narciso Rodriguez
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When Dad came home from work, he'd turn our family dinners into tutorials on business, money, sales, and profit margins. He shared fascinating stories about his customers, marketing, and my favorite topic when I was a kid - new product launches. Our father also took us to his office before the advent of 'Take Your Child to Work Day.'
Denise Morrison
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There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.
Brad Stone
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I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.
Beth Brooke
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
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I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.
Fred Wilson
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If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.
Donald Trump
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
Oleg Cassini
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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
Lee Iacocca
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
Kate Bosworth
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I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
Owen Hart
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
A. E. Housman
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett
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There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
Karl Albrecht
