Business Quotes
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Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
William Rosenberg -
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
Catherine DeVrye
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Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.
Richard Neal -
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
Stephen Sondheim -
Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.
Harry Shearer -
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.
George Bernard Shaw -
If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.
Rei Kawakubo
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My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate - especially my dad - he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too.
Mirai Nagasu -
I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Sydney Biddle Barrows -
I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.
Susan Lucci -
Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.
Sara Blakely
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Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.
David Ellefson -
If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!
Michael Gerber -
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
Michael Douglas -
You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.
Judith McKenna -
My business is to prevent the future.
Ray Bradbury
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A major reason so many start-ups fail is the flawed assumption that if the product is good enough, consumers will find it, the Field of Dreams philosophy of Build it and they will come. Except a lot of times, they don’t. Founders can be overly optimistic when it comes to acquiring customers instead of better preparing for what is usually a time consuming and expensive aspect of growing a business.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.
Margaret Mitchell -
I love the U.S. I love doing business there.
Gerry Schwartz -
My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
Arthur Conan Doyle