962 private quotes tagged business

“I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.” — Jeff Bezos

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“Your margin is my opportunity.” — Jeff Bezos

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“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'” — Jeff Bezos

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“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.” — Jeff Bezos

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“How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.” — Mark Burnett

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“All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.” — Jeff Bezos

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“I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.” — Christopher Walken

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“From thought to doubt to idea to doubt to pitch to doubt to acceptance to doubt to preparation to doubt to execution...” — Jason Fried

Source:https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/430883023802736640

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“I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.” — Betty White

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“Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.” — James Buchan

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“You have to be a great writer to work here, in every single position, because the majority of our communication is written, primarily because a lot of us work remotely but also because writing is quieter.” — Jason Fried

Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/jobs/corner-office-jas...

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“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” — Walt Disney

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“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.” — Walt Disney

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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker

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“Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.” — William Feather

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“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” — Ayn Rand

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“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.” — Warren Buffett

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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.” — Jack Welch

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“Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.” — Jack Welch

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“Word of mouth is the best medium of all.” — William Bernbach

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“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.” — Dave Barry

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“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” — Francis Bacon

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