Business Quotes
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Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.
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I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'
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Mitt and his ilk are always saying, 'If only we ran the government more like a business.' No! Government is there specifically for the things that are not supposed to run like a business. Government is not supposed to make a profit.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
