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).

  • “And then there’s all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I’m always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.” -Shirley Manson

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  • “Business is tough you need tough guys.” -Carlos Ghosn

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  • “In this business, if you don’t pay your debts you’re finished.” -Roger Stone

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  • “When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.” -Billie Jean King

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  • “I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I’ll walk away from show business. But I don’t want to walk away empty-handed.” -Dave Chappelle

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  • “I’m not really in the excuse business.” -Bill Parcells

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  • “Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.” -Twyla Tharp

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  • “I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.” -V. S. Naipaul

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  • “Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.” -Kevin Mitnick

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  • “It’s a real roller-coaster ride if you’re lucky to have longevity in this business – you have to be able to ride those waves.” -Jennifer Lopez

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  • “A shady business never yields a sunny life.” -B. C. Forbes

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  • “I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask…

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  • “Politicians also have a love affair with the ‘small business exemption.’ Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it’s an admission that the costs of a regulation just can’t be justified.” -John Sununu

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  • “Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That’s the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.” -Theresa May

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  • “I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.” -Kevin Costner

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  • “My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.” -Johnny Carson

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  • “When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don’t pry into other people’s business.” -Maya Lin

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  • “I’ve learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.” -Eli Wallach

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  • “The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.” -Guy Kawasaki

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  • “It’s tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don’t get it… if it was true and I was gay, I’d embrace it, and…

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  • “I have no business being a journalist. I’m the least, I’m the least – I’m the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I’ve never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe…

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  • “In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.” -David Mamet

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  • “Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.” -Edna Ferber

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  • “Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.” -James Buchan

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  • “Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.” -Emma Roberts

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  • “Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.” -Clara Barton

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  • “When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business.” -Flannery O’Connor

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  • “I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.” -Daniel Craig

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  • “I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.” -John Irving

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  • “We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.” -Stephen Harper

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  • “I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.” -John Stossel

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  • “I still have a lot to learn – about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.” -Britney Spears

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  • “It’s not hard to get your way when it’s your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they’re not around. I don’t really like the sound of that, ’cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I’m just very black and white when it comes to my business. There’s really no gray area.” -Nicki…

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  • “I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.” -Jon Bon Jovi

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  • “Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.” -Cate Blanchett

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  • “A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.” -Amber Tamblyn

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  • “Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.” -Christopher Lasch

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  • “You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time’s going to come when you go back down.” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.” -Anthony Anderson

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  • “When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.” -Vera Wang

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  • “Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.” -Willie Mays

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  • “In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.” -Evan Davis

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  • “One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.” -Richard Branson

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  • “I have made some of the best friends that I’ve got in this business.” -Kate Moss

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  • “You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free’?” -Dick Gregory

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  • “My whole family’s been in the business. My whole family is crazy.” -Blake Lively

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  • “Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.” -Bruce Barton

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  • “Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.” -Benjamin Carson

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  • “By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.” -Lawrence Welk

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  • “It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.” -Alfred North Whitehead

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  • “My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.” -Kim Cattrall

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  • “It’s a reality that in this business there’s an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it’s more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that’s just going to have to wait.” -Emily Procter

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  • “A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.” -Jon Meacham

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  • “The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.” -Steven Patrick Morrissey

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  • “My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.” -Tony Blair

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  • “The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.” -Grace Paley

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  • “Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • “Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It’s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.” -Uma Thurman

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  • “Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.” -Herbert Hoover

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  • “Our company is built on people – those who work for us, and those we do business with.” -Harvey S. Firestone

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  • “I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.” -William Hague

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  • “The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.” -Margaret J. Wheatley

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  • “Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.” -Peter Singer

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  • “You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you’ll never build an enduring business.” -Victor Kiam

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  • “I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.” -Eric Clapton

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  • “I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.” -Rihanna

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  • “I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you’re a Democrat. Sometimes that’s good, obviously, and sometimes that’s obviously bad. But in the news business, there’s no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.” -J. C. Watts

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  • “This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It’s not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It’s not an intellectual cinema in America.” -Jacqueline Bisset

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  • “I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.” -Joni Mitchell

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  • “In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, you’re obsolete.” -Cher

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  • “Kids are great. That’s one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It’s a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.” -Charles Barkley

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  • “I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.” -Alan Greenspan

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  • “White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life’s business being just the terrible choice.” -Robert Browning

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  • “After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • “As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.” -Thomas Frank

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  • “I’m no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.” -Francis Ford Coppola

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  • “Dear, never forget one little point. It’s my business. You just work here.” -Elizabeth Arden

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  • “As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I’ve dealt with them nearly all my life.” -Loretta Young

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  • “I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it’s so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don’t find that my process as an…

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  • “I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.” -Billy Sunday

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  • “Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.” -Jeff Goodell

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  • “We have mountain of debt that isn’t going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.” -Rick Santelli

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  • “What other people think of me is none of my business.” -Gary Oldman

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  • “The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.” -Robert Anton Wilson

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  • “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.” -E. Joseph Cossman

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  • “The trouble with movies as a business is that it’s an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it’s a business.” -Charlton Heston

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  • “I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.” -Morgan Freeman

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  • “If you have a line of business – I know this as a CEO – or if you have a teenager – I know this as a parent – who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.” -Carly Fiorina

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  • “I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.” -Alan Alda

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  • “Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.” -Maurice Sendak

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  • “Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.” -David Suzuki

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  • “I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.” -Tony Campolo

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  • “Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust – it has a business model that either works or it doesn’t.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “Like everybody in show business, you think you’re going to wake up one day, and it’s all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business – the ones I talk to, anyway.” -Rod Stewart

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  • “I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.” -Patti Smith

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  • “There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.” -Michael Bloomberg

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  • “Music and the music business are two different things.” -Erykah Badu

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  • “Don’t solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you’re just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in…

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  • “There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.” -David Letterman

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  • “If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.” -Joey Adams

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  • “When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.” -Calvin Klein

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  • “It’s so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I’m 50.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.” -Kevin O’Leary

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  • “Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.” -Margaret Sanger

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  • “I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.” -Tony Bennett

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  • “It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.” -Michael Eisner

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  • “The camera fails to capture the ‘business’ in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.” -Danica McKellar

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  • “The movie business is a big gamble.” -Jackie Chan

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  • “Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.” -Jack Welch

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  • “I’m an introvert at heart… And show business – even though I’ve loved it so much – has always been hard for me.” -Roy Rogers

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  • “Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.” -John Podhoretz

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  • “There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do – but that part is for me. It’s my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There’s a sadness to it, but there’s romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.” -Alexander McQueen

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  • “If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you’re putting yourself out of business.” -Lee Kuan Yew

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  • “Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don’t really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don’t really have very high, cultured conversations.” -Helena Bonham Carter

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  • “When I was in N.W.A. and didn’t get paid all the money I was owed, that’s when the business side of showbiz hit me.” -Ice Cube

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  • “Politics is just show business for ugly people.” -Jay Leno

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  • “My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That’s what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first…

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  • “The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.” -George Michael

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  • “Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.” -E. W. Howe

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  • “I’ve seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can’t make any money. I tell you something… no one’s going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.” -Jimmy Dean

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  • “I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it’s business as usual. I don’t understand how they can’t see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take…

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  • “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.” -David Ogilvy

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  • “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.” -Jesse Ventura

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  • “I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.” -Mark Zuckerberg

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  • “Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.” -Janice Dickinson

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  • “The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.” -A. N. Wilson

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  • “That’s what show business is, sincere insincerity.” -Benny Hill

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  • “If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.” -Thurgood Marshall

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  • “Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.” -Ron Jaworski

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  • “Death is a billion-dollar business. They can’t even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don’t you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver’s license? It’s totally insane.” -John Cusack

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  • “I have laid aside business, and gone a’fishing.” -Izaak Walton

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  • “Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business – the gambler always loses over the long term.” -Marilyn vos Savant

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  • “Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.” -Bill Vaughan

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  • “I couldn’t be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you’re ridiculed.” -Julia Roberts

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  • “All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.” -Duke of Wellington

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  • “There’s another way we are getting behind business – by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it’s time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain’s small businesses.” -David Cameron

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  • “Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They’re very annoying.” -Neil Young

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  • “I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It’s my faith and my family, and then the business.” -Kathy Ireland

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  • “Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where’s the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.” -William J. Clinton

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  • “Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don’t need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You’re doing nothing more than killing jobs. It’s a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.” -Rick Perry

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  • “God will forgive me that’s his business.” -Heinrich Heine

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  • “The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.” -Margaret Mitchell

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  • “As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There’s always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.” -Rocco DiSpirito

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  • “We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  • “It’s wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn’t all about me.” -Kate Beckinsale

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  • “In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.” -Billy Joel

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  • “In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go ‘interesting, interesting, interesting’. They’re interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.” -Madonna Ciccone

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  • “I’m very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I’m like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.” -Avril Lavigne

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  • “And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.” -Shaquille O’Neal

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  • “The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there’s this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, ‘Well, you say I’m a pop star, so maybe that’s not true.’” -Kelly Clarkson

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  • “The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.” -Henry Louis Gates

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  • “Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.” -Ralph Nader

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  • “Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.” -Ric Flair

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  • “Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.” -David Byrne

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  • “In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.” -Suze Orman

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  • “Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‘tough this and tough that.’ Then there is this business about ‘gooey.’ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.” -Madeleine Albright

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  • “The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.” -Pierre Trudeau

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  • “Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.” -Stephen Fry

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  • “Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.” -Michael Porter

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  • “My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn’t doing this I’d be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.” -John Cleese

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  • “Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.” -Anthea Turner

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  • “I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn’t want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you…

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  • “I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.” -Billy Corgan

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  • “Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.” -Dalton Trumbo

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  • “The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.” -Marshall McLuhan

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  • “We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.” -David Frum

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  • “I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.” -George Lucas

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  • “I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.” -Mel Brooks

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  • “We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “And what most people don’t understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.” -Alphonso Jackson

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  • “We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.” -Adlai E. Stevenson

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  • “I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.” -Sylvester Stallone

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  • “After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.” -Nelson Piquet

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  • “A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.” -Lee Iacocca

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  • “I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” -Elvis Presley

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  • “Barack Obama doesn’t believe in free enterprise. He’s never going to admit it. For instance, he’s never going to come straight out and say, ‘If you own a business you didn’t build it.’ Alright, maybe he will.” -Marco Rubio

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  • “When I’ve gone back to work, it’s always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it’s the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can’t avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.” -Daniel Day-Lewis

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  • “There’s a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can’t write. It’s a big business.” -Tori Amos

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  • “It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.” -Dolley Madison

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