962 private quotes tagged business

“Bring a timer.” — Steve Jobs

Context:To an outsider pushing for just "5 minutes of his time"

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“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.” — Walt Disney

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“I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.” — Lev Grossman

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“Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.” — Charlie Munger

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“There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.” — David Letterman

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“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” — Helen Keller

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“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” — Peter Drucker

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“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.” — Dale Carnegie

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“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates

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“You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.” — Rod Stewart

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“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” — Henry Ford

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“I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.” — Rihanna

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“If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.” — Jeff Bezos

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“What other people think of me is none of my business.” — Gary Oldman

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“This is why I’m taking extra time to really try to get it right. I’ll have plenty of time to refine the style, but I want the basics solid.” — Marco Arment

Context:On building his next project, a podcast client called Overcast.

Source:https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/427300033697165312

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“My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.” — Elon Musk

Source:Elon Musk Biography. p 73.

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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” — Dale Carnegie

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“People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.” — Michael Lewis

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“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” — Jeff Bezos

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“If the service is free, the product being sold is you.”

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“Many iOS developers model App Store pricing after mass-market superhits. Would you enter the restaurant business by mimicking McDonalds?” — Daniel Jalkut

Source:https://twitter.com/danielpunkass/status/427105052852244480

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