Acumen Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's…
— Donald Trump
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I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across…
— Anita Roddick
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My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got…
— Donna Mills
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The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the…
— Antonin Scalia
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Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that…
— Russell Simmons
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For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not…
— Criss Jami
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But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that…
— Arthur Levitt Jr
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To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at…
— Warren St. John
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IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who…
— Bill Vaughan
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For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by…
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt…
— Bradley Whitford
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Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and…
— Chuck Klosterman
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With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
— Chris Bohjalian
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My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he…
— Bibhu Mohapatra
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As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.
— Robin S. Sharma
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I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.
— Trey Gowdy
Who Wrote These Acumen Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 Acumen Quotes as follows: