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In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening. Brad Wenstrup
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Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders. Brad Stone
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I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day. Bobby Schilling
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I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works. Bobby Lee
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Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer. Bill Gurley
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It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
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In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business. Bing Gordon
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When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be. Billy Beane
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Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do. Betty Williams
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They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers. Pat Murphy
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To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members. Robert A. Heinlein
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. Vernon Jordan
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Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money. Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom. Bill Gates