Business Quotes
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In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.
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There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
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I reach for my briefcase, take out a yellow legal pad and take a pen from my coat pocket. Then I make a list of all the items people think of as being goals: cost-effective purchasing, employing good people, high technology, producing products, producing quality products, selling quality products, capturing market share. I even add some others like communications and customer satisfaction. All of those are essential to running the business successfully. What do they all do? They enable the company to make money. But they are not the goals themselves; they’re just the means of achieving the goal.
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Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
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Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."
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You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
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He was all heart. He had the passion and it takes that passion to make something of yourself in the restaurant business.
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We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.
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People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
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When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone who died and things like that. When President Obama uses it, he changes the way America does business.
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I think the hardest part for us as professional athletes and coaches is we always deal with a black and white business.
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The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
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What's everybody's business is nobody's business.
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
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I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
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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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Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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There's no denying I believe GM's business in Europe is in the process of improving quite quickly.
