Business Quotes
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I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
Lilly Pulitzer
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When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.
Jeremy Stoppelman
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
Ice Cube
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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.
Fiona McIntosh
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I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
Yusuf Hamied
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The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
Steve Stoute
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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
Edmund Phelps
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I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
Alfonso Cuaron
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
Tamara Mellon
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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Betty Ford
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
Larry Kirshbaum
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I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
John Wayne
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Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
Carly Fiorina
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I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
Randy Lerner
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Barbara Corcoran
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I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business.
Masayoshi Son
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My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
Eddie Marsan
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To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.
Laura Wasser
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In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.
Benjamin Graham
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It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Madeleine de Souvre
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It's a weird thing about our business: You give everything you have, and there are moments where you go back and forth in your mind about if what you're doing is brilliant or a total disaster.
Dave Franco
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It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.
Safra A. Catz
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As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.
Jack Markell