Business Quotes
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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
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The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.
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When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.
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We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
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The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.
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We've all got to work to restore business confidence...but I believe that longer term we may look at Enron as being a positive as opposed to a negative, ... It may lead to greater transparency.
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I think that whole aura of marriage and family is desirable, especially when you're involved in this kind of business. You want that security in your personal life.
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When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.
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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
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I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
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In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
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I'm so honoured and excited to be working in the business at a time when it's truly progressing.
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Since 2011, Groupon has lost $730 million, and Zynga has lost just over $1 billion. Twitter has been in business for 10 years and went public in 2013. Since then, the company has lost $2 billion.
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It means a lot to everybody outside of the business, so much that it's come to mean more to us. It's sort of an insider music thing, not really a mandate of the people. But it's nice to be in there with all of my heroes.
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Knowledge of music business gives us access to artists, talent and a unique approach to performing services for advertising. Not to mention the branding implications of unique music with original sense for linking an advertiser, its message and its target.
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The No. 1 country in the world to do business in is which one? To locate where you want to create jobs, where you want to have a great market? It's Canada. Even in Russia, you can build a Silicon Valley outside of Moscow.
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What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?
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I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.
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The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.
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I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.
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Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.
