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Business Quotes
"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
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"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
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"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."
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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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"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."
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"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
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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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"That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures."
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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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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
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"When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page."
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"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"
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"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
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"We would rather have our employees running our business."
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"No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized."
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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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"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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"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
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"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."
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"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."
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"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
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"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."
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"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
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"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts."
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"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions."
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"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
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