“I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.”
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“In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.”
“It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.”
“I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.”
“Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.”
“I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.”
“There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.”
“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”
“Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.”
“The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.”
“The movie business is a big gamble.”
“I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.”
“You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.”
“I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.”
“Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.”
“Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.”
“Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'”
“You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.”
“If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.”
“Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.”
“Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.”
“I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.”
“When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.”
“Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.”