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" Quotes and Sayings About business

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Businesses Create Creating Difference
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

Business Crisis Everybody Had
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

Business CNN Grew Half
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Activities Business Concerned Far
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Business First Men Other
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

About Being Business Essentials
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If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

Appointment Business Date Decades
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All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

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In business, if you realize you've made a bad decision, you change it.

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Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

Businesses Communities Different Different World
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There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to other people's lives. So if you've got an idea that's gonna make a big difference to other people's lives, then just get on and do it.

Big Big Difference Business Difference
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I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

Able Been Build Business
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Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

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A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

All The Difference Anybody Anybody Else Belief
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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Age Allowing Businesses Creatively
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Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Always Businesses Entrepreneurs Focus
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Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Business Commitment Entrepreneurs Fear
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Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

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Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Been Business Career Conventional
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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Birds Breeding Business Christmas
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More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Apple Businesses Encouraging Following
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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Better Business Day Entrepreneur
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Any Being Business Calories
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Big Business Dirty England
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Believe Big Business Change
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Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Business Make Necessary Others
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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Accurate Business Know Know Yourself
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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Business End In The End Operations
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

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The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Better Businessman Good Holds
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.
Business Get Time You
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Arts Business Good Grow
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Business Diminish Ever Greater
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In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
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The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.

Admire Brilliant Business Ideas
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

Business Control Impatient Important
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You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Approach Business Gut Rationality
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'

Advice Asked Business Jobs
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Art Balance Business Crazy
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

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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.

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