962 private quotes tagged business

“If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.” — Guy Kawasaki

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“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.” — Harold S. Geneen

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“You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.” — Harold S. Geneen

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“I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.” — Donny Osmond

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“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.” — Michael Symon

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“You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.” — An Wang

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“If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.” — Harvey Weinstein

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“'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.” — Richard Chamberlain

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“Business is in itself a power.” — Garet Garrett

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“Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.” — Ross Perot

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“Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.” — Edward de Bono

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“The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.” — Willie Mays

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“It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.” — Dick Cheney

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“Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.” — Bruce Barton

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“A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.” — Martin Feldstein

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“I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.” — Jack Kilby

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“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.” — Jack Kemp

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“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.” — Dave Eggers

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“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.” — David Lynch

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“What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.” — Carly Fiorina

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“You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.” — Rocco DiSpirito

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