Business Quotes
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If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.
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I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.
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You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.
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I have seen players and coaches come and go, but through it all, I have always known Cleveland is where I want to retire. But life doesn't always work the way you want it to, and at the end of the day, the saying, 'This is a business,' is unfortunately true.
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As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.
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I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.
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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
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Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
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Ah well-the boss didn’t have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew.
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In my experience, what is often missing between intent and action is the knowledge and the means to actually change the way we do business or make consumer decisions.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.
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When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.
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You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.
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As artists, Emily and I rely a lot on what other artists say about people they work with in the music business.
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The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.
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Continuity is a wonderful thing, and it is a very rare thing in show business.
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If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.
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Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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At the end of the day you have to go home to yourself. You have to be with yourself. So make sure what you're doing in business is representative of who you are and that you feel comfortable and that you can stand behind your work.
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The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
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As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.
