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"733 Business Quotes

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

Actor Goes Lot Pay
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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You can start a business and not have the aptitude for that business.

Start Business Aptitude Business
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Capital is necessary but not sufficient to start a business.
Capital Necessary Start Business
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You can’t be successful in business without taking risk.
Successful Business Taking risk
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… Many African leaders have realized that they can no longer be the “adversaries’ of the private sector. They must work with entrepreneurs.

Leaders Realized Adversaries Private sector
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You should care for your staff, ask them questions, find out about their families and if you ask me, I’ll say send them personalized SMS on a daily basis thanking them for all they are doing to grow your business, you’ll be shocked.

Should care Questions Families Business
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Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

Anything Business Change Changes
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To improve the dynamics of the market, we will introduce foreign exchange primary dealers who would be registered by the CBN (central bank) to deal directly with the bank for large trade sizes on a two-way quote basis.

Improve Dynamics Market Foreign exchange
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I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Business California Ever Financial
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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Financial markets Unpredictable Scenarios
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I was a human being before I became a businessman.

Human being Businessman
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Markets Uncertainty Flux Money
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Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Stock market Grow out Solid basis Misconception
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Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

Markets Designed Individuals Private needs
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Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

Regulating Taxpayers Enforcement Incarceration cost
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A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

Global economy Free movement Goods Services
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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

Interest rate Low Conditions Asset bubbles
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I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

Called gold Ultimate bubble Higher Safe
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization

Investment decision Scientific hypothesis
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Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

View Possible Financial Hypotheses
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When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

Sell options Assuming risk Profitable business
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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect

Contend Financial market Never reflect
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I find the business world hard.

Business world Hard
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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded has to be created. But you mustn’t create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness…devoid of building a world-class, sustainable black business community.

System Creating opportunities Law excluded
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I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

About Anything Business Long
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

Always Away Been Big
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You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

Business Drives Manner Part
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I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Always Another Apologize Band
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Business Calls Devotion His
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I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

About Bonds Did Dollars
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Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Diversification Funds Historically Individual
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Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Big Boy Disadvantage Entering
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The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Argument Best Diversification Funds
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I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

Any Companies Diversification Fund
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As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

Almost AlmostAnything Anything Bull
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You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Because Blinded Buying Complacency
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That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Buy Dangerous Effects Hold
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Across America Been Came
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A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Better Lot Market Money
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Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

American Bank Banker Became
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Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

Any Bear Bull BullMarket
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When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

Blind Going Holes Just
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A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

Bull BullMarket Crash Long
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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

About Away Dubious Far
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We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

Every Experience Frankly Funding
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One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

About Aspects Different Economy
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The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

Fund Industry Investors Mutual
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Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

Affair American AmericanPublic Because
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