“Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.”
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“Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.”
“I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.”
“Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.”
“I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.”
“Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.”
“I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.”
“As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.”
“A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.”
“After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.”
“After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.”
“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.”
“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”
“I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.”
“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
“In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.”
“Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.”
“As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.”
“We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.”
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.”
“The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.”
“In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.”
“You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.”
“The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.”