Business Quotes
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
Walt Disney
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There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
Ethel Waters
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I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit on Maud's bed while she is lying under the covers with only a T-shirt on, determined to seduce him.
Andre Aciman
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
Anita Roddick
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I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.
James Marsden
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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
Martin Lewis Perl
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No wonder poets sometimes have to seem. So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
Robert Frost
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I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.
John Cho
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The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
Clayton Christensen
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It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.
Blythe Masters
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I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.
Jeremy Stoppelman
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The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
Alex Campbell
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The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.
Wendy Starland
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Where do I get the confidence to be different? A lot of it comes from curiosity. I spent years as a young man trying to understand the business I'm in. I have spent decades staying connected to how the rest of the world works.
Brian Grazer
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The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we'll stretch things out more. It's how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.
John Abercrombie
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I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.
Dede Gardner
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
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If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.
James Surowiecki
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You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.
Martin Naughton
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I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
Dixie Lee Ray
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You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.
Andrew Cherng
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Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.
Klaus Schwab
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One of the hardest things to do for business people and leaders is to keep the team focused on achieving the goal.
Clay Clark
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It was only after I'd had some injuries that I basically retired from the performing side of show business and then began working in casting. I did that for 19 years or so before a friend of mine decided to cast me as Phyllis Lapin-Vance on 'The Office.'
Phyllis Smith