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Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

— Mitt Romney

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.

— Jim Cantalupo

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

— Derek Bailey

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

— John Morgridge

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

— Apolo Ohno

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

— Jesse James Garrett

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

— Francisco Costa

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

— Chris Hughes

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.

— Tim O'Reilly

✗Opposing Perspectives

Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.

— Matthew Stewart