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Business Quotes


"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."


"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899."


"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."


"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."


"Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business."


"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."


"Social Media = Business. Period."


"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."


"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."


"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."


"If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people."


"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."


"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."


"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."


"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."


"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."


"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."


"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."


"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."


"German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship."


"Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves."


"Confidence is everything in this business."


"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."


"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."


"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."


"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."


"Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness."


"Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money."


"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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