Business Quotes
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If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.
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The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
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When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
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I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.
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How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
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Everything that you do in this entertainment business, you build a fan base.
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I want to be very clear: if we are to sell this business, we are not a forced seller.
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.
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Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.
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You're lucky if you're in three great movies, or even one great movie. I've been so lucky. But if you rely on the business to dictate whether you're happy, it gets really complicated. You just can't do that. There have been times in my life that I've done that, and I've found it depressing.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
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By strengthening the core of our business and leading in digital innovation, we will accelerate growth, enhance our margin, and deliver increased total shareholder returns.
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Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
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We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.
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I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.
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These discussions resulted in the creation of the new corporation in a true partnership between city and the business community.
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We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
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To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world.
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I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.
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Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
