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Business Quotes
"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."
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"Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business."
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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
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"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."
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"Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion."
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"Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth."
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"I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"
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"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
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"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
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"I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did."
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"No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized."
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"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction."
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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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"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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"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."
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"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
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"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
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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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"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
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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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"That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams."
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"In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
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"After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful."
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"Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking."
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"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."
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"In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything."
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"The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews."
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"As a business leader you have to ask yourself, "Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?" If the answer is no, FIX IT!"
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"I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers."
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"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."
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"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
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"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."
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"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long."
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"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"
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"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."
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