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Business Quotes
"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."
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"In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to innovate will die."
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"Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics, and soft elements such as communication and culture."
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"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."
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"Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help."
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"Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business."
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"We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy."
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"Running a business is a serious thing."
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"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."
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"The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors."
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"When you put yourself in the customer's shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty."
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"The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want."
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"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move."
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"I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point."
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"The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness."
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"I think it is very important in this business to be an individual."
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"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."
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"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on."
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"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
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"I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business."
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"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business."
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"I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?"
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"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own."
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"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."
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"I'm in the business where you get the business all the time."
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"I can take more punishment than anyone in the business."
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"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."
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"So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass."
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"Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion."
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"That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business."
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"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
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"Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent."
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"The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected."
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"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back."
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