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Business Quotes
"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties."
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"The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for."
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"I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known."
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"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it."
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"If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer."
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"Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown."
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"Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable and as unbiased as possible."
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"I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business."
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"The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt."
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"I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me."
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"Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way."
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"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
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"I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy."
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"It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business."
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"Tesla is becoming a real car company."
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"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
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"The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business."
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"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."
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"Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry."
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"My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."
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"In a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace, the focus is on stakeholders, People, Planet AND profits, not just the shareholder's greed of more profits."
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"Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus."
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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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"But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record."
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"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style."
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"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
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"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
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"Now you learn about the greatest tool available to any salesman. I'm going to give you an introduction into something that will help customers recognise the value of your offer all by themselves."
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"SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete."
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"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind."
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"There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable."
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"If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that."
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"The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us."
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