Business Quotes - Page 39

• Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Years, People

  "Tony Blair: 'A new coalition for the environment'" by Tony Blair, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.

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• Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

  Henry Mintzberg

  Corporations, Management, Economics

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• Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

  William McDonough

  Optimistic, People, Trying

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• However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  Samuel Pepys

  Music, Giving, Way

  "The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A New and Complete Transcription".

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• Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Marketing, Rooms

  "Why America’s #1 Business Advantage is Being Ravaged by Cultural Shifts and Social Media" by Emad Rizkalla, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2016.

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• Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

  George Burns

  Retirement, Aging, Retiring

  George Burns (1986). “Dr. Burns' Prescription for happiness”, G K Hall & Co

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• All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

  Marisa Tomei

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.

  Judi Dench

  Believe, Thinking, Feet

  "Judi Dench – Grand Dame of Cinema". ComingSoon.net Interview, www.comingsoon.net. December 06, 2005.

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• I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

  Robert Wagner

  People, Good People, Tracy

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• Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

  Lori Greiner

  Work, Entrepreneur, Smart Women

  FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Jan 06, 2014

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• Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

  Mark Cuban

  Encouragement, Thinking, Organization

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• I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

  Gene Wilder

  Mean, Acting, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

  Dianne Wiest

  Cash, Way, Judgment

  "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

  Paul Newman

  Success, Running, Three

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• A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

  Amber Tamblyn

  Stars, Luck, Acting

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• The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

  Luke Wilson

  Growing Up, Actors, Growing

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• I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

  Conrad Veidt

  Stupid, Hate, Heart

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• You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

  David Meerman Scott

  Media, Creating, People

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• Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do.

  Paula Wagner

  Discipline, Financial, Persons

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• Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

  Jay Baer

  Baseball, Fans, Cards

  "7 New Tools That Will Streamline Your Marketing Campaigns" By Sujan Patel, www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

  Bob Geldof

  Needs, Music Is

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• I believe that I was lucky to have suffered.
  Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason.
  Politically, financially, socially or otherwise and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Inspirational, Pain, Believe

  "The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides". Jordan Business magazine, December 2006.

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• The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

  John Seely Brown

  Important, Research, Labs

  Harvard Business Review, www.wired.com. 1991.

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• It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

  Ed Mayo

  Caring, Greed, Competition

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• It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Fire, Doors

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84

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