Business Quotes
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When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
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Light from an ordinary flame is unfocused and flickers impotently, while a laser beam is highly focused light and will cut steel. If you and your business are not focused, your efforts will diffuse into nothing.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
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We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.
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If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that’s when the magic happens.
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During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.
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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?
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I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer.
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You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
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Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.
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There’s an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don’t air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge nursing, and dark funks really took place on the expedition, they’re nobody else’s business.
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I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.
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For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.
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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.
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I'll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?
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I hate the word 'break.' It's just a business deal at the end of the day so there's no such thing as giving a break.
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
