Business Quotes
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The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
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We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.
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I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
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I think it might be nice to date someone not in the business.
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Lincoln movie had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
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How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.
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Being in the wrestling business, it was a whole lot to deal with in a short amount of time. I went from amateur wrestling one minute to, the next minute, I'm traveling the world, and I'm on the road 250 days a year.
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Hunting is doing business with animals.
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Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.
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In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
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There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.
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Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.
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If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
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I think for too long, ... women didn't have either access to the right tools or to the right positions to truly have success at the highest levels in business. Now with the Internet, we always say that the playing field is leveling.
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I love the U.S. I love doing business there.
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You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
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It's part of the business. I don't have any hard feelings.
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I strongly believe in the fact that there’s still plenty of money and plenty of private equity capital available around the globe. What are in short supply are great entrepreneurs and great teams. A trading opportunity or a company’s biggest challenge is and has always been the team behind it. There’s enormous change under way in every facet of the world. Some is technology driven, some is market driven. All that change creates unprecedented opportunity, but to take full advantage of such opportunities I mostly focus on the team. The right teams and right people behind those opportunities always win. There is no secret sauce. Trading and investing has, in my experience, boiled down to building relationships and exchanging value. It consists of striking the right balance between backing and interacting with the right teams with the right business model at the right time and with the right amount of money.
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Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.
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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
