Business Quote by William Standish Knowles Download Open image “My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.” — William Standish Knowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Background Heavily Business Business Seafaring Family Family background Heavily Slanted Slanted Business
My mom's family was farmers and coal miners. They were very hardworking folks. My dad was an attorney and ran his own firm. He… — Kendra Scott Copy Share Image
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history.… — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it. — Jerry Reinsdorf Copy Share Image
Most of the career choices I've made have been because of my family. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product… — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year… — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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