business

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘business’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people,…

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  • “Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it’s around the world.” -Karl Rove

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  • “I went onto reality TV as a business decision.” -Bethenny Frankel

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  • “You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody’s gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.” -Charlize Theron

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  • “Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply – the lower the price. The higher the demand – the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.” -Ron Wyden

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  • “In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.” -Terry Eagleton

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  • “I really don’t think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.” -Liev Schreiber

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  • “Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.” -Arthur C. Nielsen

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  • “I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.” -Valentino Garavani

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  • “If you’re an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.” -Guy Kawasaki

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  • “The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it’s egotism.” -Harold S. Geneen

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  • “McSweeney’s as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.” -Dave Eggers

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  • “I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.” -Ernie Banks

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  • “I don’t do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it’s a logical business decision.” -James Dyson

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  • “If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.” -Jeff Bezos

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  • “The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.” -Dave Chappelle

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  • “Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, ‘Oh yes, I’m hosting my own show.’” -Andy Cohen

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  • “We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.” -Dick Cheney

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  • “My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.” -Harry Houdini

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  • “At the end of the day, there’s only a few major stars in the music business, and then there’s all these people that are aspiring to be that.” -John Legend

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  • “It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.” -Theodore Parker

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  • “But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.” -Erykah Badu

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  • “I’ve never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can’t say I would turn my back on fortune. I’m someone who enjoys the benefits of money.” -Joan Collins

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  • “I’ve always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.” -Sara Blakely

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  • “People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don’t want to know nothing about you!” -Don Johnson

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  • “I’d like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.” -Caroline Wozniacki

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  • “My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you’re in an eight-mile race, you never give up.” -Alice Cooper

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  • “If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.” -Evan Bayh

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  • “Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business.” -Gwyneth Paltrow

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  • “I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.” -Jeremy Renner

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  • “I don’t really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.” -George Michael

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  • “In recent years, I’ve been writing because I’m fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.” -Ted Allen

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  • “The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We’re the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we’re down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see…

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  • “Although my family – parents and sister – all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.” -Michael Sheen

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  • “I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I’d like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you’ve done that, your marriage becomes everybody else’s business.” -Katherine Jenkins

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  • “Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy’s, the Actors’ Chapel on New York’s 49th Street, peal the tune of ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business.’ If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there…

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  • “Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.” -Joan Didion

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  • “I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.” -Alan Greenspan

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  • “I mean, I’m in the business of storytelling, not message making.” -John le Carre

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  • “Well, you can’t trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.” -Marvin Hagler

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  • “A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine’s a business today. It’s a business.” -Jack Kevorkian

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  • “Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.” -Wendell Phillips

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  • “After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn’t ask for and which we couldn’t afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.” -Mitch McConnell

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  • “The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.” -Snoop Dogg

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  • “Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That’s not a criticism they’re passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that’s why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.” -Andrew Mason

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  • “Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.” -Josie Maran

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  • “You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.” -Rocco DiSpirito

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  • “Come to West Virginia and we’ll show you how to live… how to treat people. We’re open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.” -Joe Manchin

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  • “It’s far too much to say that effective hoping is the only – or even the biggest – part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you’re selling, and often…

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  • “It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.” -Arthur Wellesley

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  • “Golf isn’t just my business, it’s my hobby.” -Lee Trevino

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  • “It’s show business. No show, no business.” -Dick Wolf

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  • “We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.” -Ice T

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  • “Well there’s nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it’s his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have – there are other things in life besides politics.” -Caroline Kennedy

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  • “I’ve drunk Amazon’s free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I’m not anti-Amazon, and I’m not pro-publishers either. I’m pro-books.” -Lev Grossman

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  • “The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.” -Alton Brown

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  • “Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I’ve always hoped to have a really long career. So I’ve tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn’t realize the two could go together.” -Jewel

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  • “Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It’s about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.” -Hugh Laurie

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  • “In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don’t work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “Just because you’ve made a couple movies, you’ve done some good movies, you’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody’s entitled. It’s a business. If they don’t see it, I can think they’re wrong, but I’m not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.” -Edward Norton

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  • “I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.” -Saul Bellow

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  • “Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt

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  • “How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don’t already know?” -Marlee Matlin

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  • “Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.” -Carlos Ghosn

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  • “The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.” -Bryan Cranston

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  • “I’ve managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.” -Leonardo DiCaprio

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  • “Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.” -Sharon Stone

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  • “But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.” -Jodie Foster

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  • “Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.” -Aneurin Bevan

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  • “The career stuff is for business people.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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  • “We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.” -Ice Cube

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  • “Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.” -Ron Perlman

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  • “I don’t even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot – the methods of releasing music.” -Anthony Kiedis

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  • “I’m quitting the business today. I’m going to open up an appliance store, I’ve always really been into toasters. I’m giving it all up.” -Dane Cook

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  • “I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there’s an adjustment that you have to make.” -Kristen Wiig

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  • “A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.” -Norman Ralph Augustine

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  • “I didn’t have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.” -Adam Carolla

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  • “All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.” -Charles W. Eliot

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  • “These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they’ve got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.” -Julie Burchill

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  • “Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.” -Emma Goldman

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  • “Performing doesn’t turn me on. It’s an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.” -Dan Rather

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  • “We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.” -John Cage

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  • “I’ve never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.” -Manuel Puig

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  • “I have several writer friends, but I don’t involve them in my work process. I’m more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.” -Jodi Picoult

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  • “It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.” -Josh Radnor

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  • “I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.” -Catherine the Great

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  • “Major labels didn’t start showing up really until they smelled money, and that’s all they’re ever going to be attracted to is money-that’s the business they’re in- making money.” -Ian MacKaye

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  • “There has to be a measure of faith. That’s what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.” -Wentworth Miller

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  • “For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.” -Howard Nemerov

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  • “Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we’re open for business.” -Ginnifer Goodwin

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  • “To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.” -Fiona Shaw

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  • “In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I’m in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don’t have a lot of scope, and I’m really picky about what I wear.” -Marc Jacobs

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  • “The owners don’t win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it’s certainly not good for the players, it’s certainly not good for the fans. And that’s most important to us.” -Roger Goodell

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  • “What if I couldn’t handle people’s opinions of me? I know that shouldn’t dictate a person’s degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.” -Chris Evans

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  • “I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.” -Orlando Bloom

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  • “Barack Obama’s life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush’s tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.” -John Sununu

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  • “People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I’m like, ‘No, families mess up kids!’ I grew up in Hollywood, and I’m perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won’t stop them, as long as they’re passionate about it.” -Tori Spelling

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  • “If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they’re going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they’re going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That’s just the…

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  • “In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you’re going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.” -Jason Aldean

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  • “I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.” -Curt Schilling

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  • “A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.” -Edward Sapir

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  • “Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.” -Isak Dinesen

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  • “I find the business world hard.” -Haile Gebrselassie

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  • “If you want to stay in the business then you’ve got to be a bit shrewd, haven’t you?” -Katie Price

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  • “As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you’re relying on the business.” -Mia Wasikowska

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  • “I can’t understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.” -Jack Kemp

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  • “Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they’re very bright. But there’s a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.” -Anna Chlumsky

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  • “Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.” -Don Rickles

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  • “Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.” -Peter Lynch

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  • “Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era – it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.” -Clement Mok

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  • “That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.” -Steven Morrissey

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  • “I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.” -Tom Colicchio

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  • “I’ll keep on acting ’til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven’t lost my enthusiasm yet!” -Robert Duvall

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  • “The forgotten man… He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.” -William Graham Sumner

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  • “I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!” -Henrik Ibsen

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  • “I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.” -Eddie Van Halen

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  • “Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn’t allow the predictability that business needs.” -Rand Paul

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  • “How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they’ve got that great business idea.” -Mark Burnett

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  • “The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it’s the only thing they’ve been allowed to do.” -Paul Theroux

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  • “And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.” -Elton John

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  • “Money is not the motivating force. It’s nice to have money, but I don’t live high. What I enjoy is running the business.” -Rupert Murdoch

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  • “My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than…

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  • “There’s not a business or a master plan as far as I’m concerned. I take it week by week, and I don’t think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.” -Lauren Conrad

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  • “You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.” -will.i.am

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  • “I’m glad about what’s happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn’t like music. They didn’t trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.” -James Taylor

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  • “I wasn’t looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.” -Giada De Laurentiis

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  • “Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we’re taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that…

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  • “I’m probably the only person who goes to work and says ‘Wow, it’s really nice here and sweet,’ even in the competitive movie business.” -Harvey Weinstein

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  • “There’s a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.” -Maureen O’Hara

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  • “Detainee policy in this war is hard, it’s complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.” -Lindsey Graham

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  • “I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.” -Anne Burrell

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  • “What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign.” -Dennis Miller

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  • “The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.” -James Cash Penney

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  • “I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don’t want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there’s a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty…

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  • “In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it’s all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.” -Brett Favre

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  • “I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don’t appreciate it.” -Betty White

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  • “Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.” -Melissa Bean

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  • “Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.” -Bobby Flay

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  • “What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.” -Courtney Love

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  • “Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.” -David Brainerd

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  • “If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don’t understand that it’s part of being in show business, then I’d better go work in a bank.” -Antonio Banderas

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  • “Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.” -Thomas Friedman

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  • “The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don’t want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.” -Joe Nichols

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  • “I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.” -Jack Kilby

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  • “Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.” -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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  • “You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.” -Harold S. Geneen

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  • “There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.” -Jeff Bezos

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  • “Everything is tennis for me, it’s my career and it’s entertainment, but it’s also a business.” -Venus Williams

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  • “A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.” -Loretta Lynn

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  • “I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I’m a Republican.” -Shannen Doherty

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  • “My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.” -Chuck Grassley

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  • “The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.” -Laura Linney

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  • “I’ve set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.” -Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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  • “I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn’t think that, there would be something wrong with me. I’m grateful and thankful for what I’ve got.” -Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  • “It’s not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We’ve gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it’s a – very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so…

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  • “If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama’s leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.” -Chris Christie

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  • “The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you’re not working, you’re not interesting.” -Elisabeth Rohm

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  • “Movies are an expensive business.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “If you can’t pay for a thing, don’t buy it. If you can’t get paid for it, don’t sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don’t wait for time.” -Ernst Fischer

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  • “America’s political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.” -Al Gore

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  • “I still work hard to know my business. I’m continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I’m always selling. Always.” -Mark Cuban

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  • “Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.” -Anita Brookner

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  • “I’ve made movies that I thought were good. I’ve made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you’re in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that – because you’re good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that’s show business.”…

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  • “You have got to have discipline and focus – on the customer and how you run the business.” -Jim Cantalupo

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  • “You just can’t get too focused on worrying about what’s going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.” -James Sinegal

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  • “A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.” -Marvin Bower

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  • “I’m in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.” -Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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  • “There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness – but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: ‘Go and become a philanthropist.’ I said, ‘No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business – a business based on selflessness.’” -Muhammad Yunus

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  • “Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I’m extremely undisciplined person.” -Meryl Streep

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  • “The Postal Service’s unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation’s infrastructure.” -Joe Baca

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  • “I’ve always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.” -Ashley Tisdale

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  • “You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.” -An Wang

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  • “The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I’d say probably in the early ’70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, ’cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.” -Jimmy Buffett

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  • “I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I’ve always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.” -Sally Kirkland

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  • “You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.

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  • “The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers’ own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.” -Russell Baker

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  • “A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.” -Martin Feldstein

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  • “According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.” -Kit Bond

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  • “I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.” -Peter Fonda

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