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• I cannot for the life of me understand why the American market keeps going up. Our economy has some real challenges. The infrastructure's falling apart. We're destroying jobs with technology. We are keeping the best and the brightest from around the world from coming to America to create new jobs and create new businesses. All of those things would give you pause to worry about the future.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Real, Fall, Technology

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• iStockphoto was revolutionizing the stock photography industry, establishing a whole new business model and democratizing stock art for everyone. It made sense for the industry-leading stock image company to take iStock to the next stage of growth, serving all markets at every price point.

  Bruce Livingstone

  Photography, Art, Growth

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• No matter what level you're starting at, it's about not only utilizing your time, but your resources and network. For me, I started my company with a small amount of savings; I never had investors and I was lucky in the sense that I had models and connections in the fashion industry who were willing to give me advice early on. So really, for anyone starting a new business, it's really important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you. And to not let that be discouraging, but to take that advice and really learn from it and mold it to what you're trying to do.

  Lauren Bush

  Fashion, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.elle.com

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• With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines - now you're on the web. I'm in book publishing. I don't have to tell you what's happened to us. Television has taken a hit. The music industry. But, thousands of new businesses have emerged on this new communication revolution platform. Not just Google, Facebook, and Twitter. There are thousands of operations. Businesses that are doing the platforms, the apps. They're mining the big data. They're creating the connections.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Book, Communication, Taken

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and jobs, and address climate change. It's a pretty big task. Pretty challenging.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Moving, Challenges, Economy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new businesses and if you do that right, the cost savings will come.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, Advice, Touching

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I run into people from the Lehigh Valley and Allentown all over the world, and they're obviously doing pretty well. They say, "Oh, it's pretty nice there now and there's a lot of new businesses that have come into the area." Nobody's telling me, "Yeah, I left." Everybody says, "You know, I'm there. It's great. It's really nice there, and you made our town famous."

  Billy Joel

  Running, Nice, People

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• By all indications, American business leaders are more adept at creating business strategies than they are skilled at human capital management. American entrepreneurs are world-beaters when it comes to creating new businesses, and corporate managers are adept at using the latest marketing, financial, and technological practices.

  James O'Toole

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Marketing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.

  Clayton Christensen

  Growth, Growing, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units to pursue the new opportunities. But the individual business units themselves within those transformed corporations were almost inert to change.

  Clayton Christensen

  Opportunity, Creating, Levels

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Stop looking at the Web as merely a display opportunity and not a way to interact. That does not create a new business model, it just shifts one that isn't growing and is outdated. The reason sites like Google are stealing advertisers from daily newspapers is not because Google has more eyeballs. It's because Google used the interactivity of the Web to deliver a new, better way to advertise.

  Sarah Lacy

  Opportunity, Google, Doe

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• A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Essence, Ideas

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• If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, Moving, Opportunity

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• All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

  Gary Hamel

  Successful, Creative, Enough

  "Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life". Book by Gary Hamel, 2000.

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• Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

  Gerard Way

  Guy, Mohawks, Want

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• One of the things I have learned over 26 years in the business is that the most productive place to focus new business efforts on is current clients. Think about it you have the relationship, you have inside knowledge of the company, the people and often, the brand, so it's a much less diverting exercise. Simply put, the odds of getting a higher share with current clients is much better than getting in the front door with new ones.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Business, Exercise, Thinking

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• In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.

  Akira Mori

  Change, Success, Business

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• One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Taken, Men, Cities

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• Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Marketing, Might, Niche

  Marc Ostrofsky (2012). “Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge, but...is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Jobs, Opportunity, Our Generation

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• I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

  Daniel H. Pink

  Running, Believe, Expression

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• **New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

  Gary Hamel

  Lying, Ambition, Innovation

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• There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

  Eric Ries

  Numbers, Support, Entrepreneur

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• New customers are the best source of new business

  Frank Bettger

  Source, Customers

  Frank Bettger (1992). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, Touchstone

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• Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Trying, Next

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