Business First Quotes

• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  Harold Geneen

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Long, Entrepreneur, Distraction

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• If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspiring, Success, Business

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

  Reid Hoffman

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Too Late

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• Business first, then pleasure.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Firsts, Pleasure

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• There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

  Peter Drucker

  Two, Business Success, Firsts

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• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  Laura Linney

  Goal, Firsts, Seems

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

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• Business first; pleasure afterwards.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Firsts, Pleasure

  The Queen of Paflagonia in 'The Rose and the Ring' (1855) ch. 1

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• Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Investing, Firsts, Possibility

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• I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.

  Tamara Mellon

  Important, Doing You, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Levels, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

  Phil Vischer

  Thinking, Ideas, Firsts

  "Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables". Publisher's Weekly review of Phil Vischer's book, www.publishersweekly.com. October 09, 2006.

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• I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.

  Snoop Dogg

  Wise, Fashion, Marketing

  Interview with Ashahed M. Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

  Christian Rudder

  Fighting, Data, Age

  Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.16, Crown

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