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Business Quotes
"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899."
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"But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business."
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"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."
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"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
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"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."
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"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."
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"Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business."
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"I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay."
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"My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent."
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"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."
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"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means."
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"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
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"Confidence is everything in this business."
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"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
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"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."
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"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product."
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"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears."
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"When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant."
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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."
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"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
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"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll."
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"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
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"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
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"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."
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"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
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"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."
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"Social Media = Business. Period."
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"Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves."
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"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
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"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."
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