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).
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“What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.” -Mario Andretti
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“There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a…
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“Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?” -Sydney Madwed
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“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that’s changing. It happened to the music industry and now it’s happening to the film studios. It’s crazy what’s going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea…
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“Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in ‘Batman’ Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.” -Tom Hiddleston
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“It’s been a joy to be a part of other people’s journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.” -Christina Aguilera
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“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.” -Megan Fox
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“I’m trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.” -Tyra Banks
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“I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.” -Billie Holiday
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“I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.” -Cat Stevens
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“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” -Michael LeBoeuf
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“Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.” -Ernie Harwell
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“For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don’t want the public in my house.” -Heidi Klum
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“At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I’d try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that’s what acting is: a small business.” -Hugh Jackman
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“The comic book world is a tough business.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.” -Thomas J. Watson
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“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life.” -Paul Ryan
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“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.” -Taylor Swift
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“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?” -Mick Jagger
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“Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.” -Herbert Simon
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“Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies.” -Jeff Bridges
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“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.” -Gertrude Stein
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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“When you’re eight years old nothing is your business.” -Lenny Bruce
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“I’m in show business… I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.” -Chris Rock
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“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” -Roy L. Smith
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“Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.” -William Feather
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“Although I’m a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing… but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.” -William Shatner
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“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven’t been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.” -Justin Bieber
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“I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.” -Brian Clough
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“I love making people laugh and feel good, and that’s awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it’s on a major scale, or whether it’s in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is…
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“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.” -Samuel Beckett
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“Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren’t necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.” -Jerry Saltz
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“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“I think I’m in a business where you have to look good, and it’s totally youth-oriented.” -Joan Rivers
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“I get a lot of return business. I think it’s all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.” -Rita Rudner
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“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” -Ezra Pound
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“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” -Paul Valery
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“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.” -Samuel Adams
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“No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.” -Florence Scovel Shinn
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“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.” -Leo Burnett
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“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.” -J. Paul Getty
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“To talk about a relationship trivializes something that’s nobody’s business.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn’t work!” -Robin Williams
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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.” -Bette Davis
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“The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top.” -Doug Coupland
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“It’s to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that’s my method.” -Edward Hopper
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“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.” -William Congreve
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“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.” -Washington Irving
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“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!” -O. Henry
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“I’m not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.” -Michelle…
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“Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.” -Horatio Nelson
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“I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything…
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“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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“I’m a big fan of small business ownership. I think it’s the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.” -Bill Rancic
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“Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.” -Edward de Bono
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“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.” -Rod Blagojevich
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“There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that’s the media.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.” -Gilbert Parker
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“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.” -John Steinbeck
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“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours’ writing. Nothing.” -J. K. Rowling
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“I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.” -Sydney Pollack
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“To keep the record straight, it wasn’t always John and Yoko. We’ve all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There’s a lot of money involved.” -Paul McCartney
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“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.” -Jerry Seinfeld
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“There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.” -Bob Woodward
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“When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would’ve had a chance. Because that’s where my real heart was.” -Steve Martin
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“Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we’ve all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.” -Sophia Bush
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“There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: – Shine!” -Jimmy Smits
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“There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.” -Joseph Addison
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“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” -Tom Robbins
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“I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad’s tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my…
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“Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don’t go buy one. Please. That’s a sin. Let’s get these puppy mills out of business.” -Shelley Morrison
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“The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.” -Raymond Chandler
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“It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.” -Romain Rolland
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“Christmas is over and Business is Business.” -Franklin P. Adams
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“‘Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.” -Richard Chamberlain
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“I feel lazy when I’m not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, ‘I know you’re gonna be OK. I’m not worried about you’.” -Kim Kardashian
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“Business is not just doing deals business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.” -Ross Perot
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“What other people think about me is not my business.” -Michael J. Fox
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“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.” -Van Morrison
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“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.” -Lord Byron
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“In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.” -Les Brown
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“If you like a person you say ‘let’s go into business together.’ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.” -Brian Tracy
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“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.” -Gore Vidal
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“There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.” -Colonel Sanders
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“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.” -Clarence Darrow
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“Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.” -A. A. Milne
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“Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.” -Stendhal
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“Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you’re in a crowd, you’ll always have some clean air to breathe.” -Julia Child
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“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.” -Alexander Pope
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“I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.” -Jim Carrey
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“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.” -William Butler Yeats
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“If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“It’s like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I’m so not that. I never was that I’ll never be that. That is part of the business that I don’t like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don’t know. But that’s fine.” -Chloe Sevigny
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“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.” -John Ruskin
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“It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.” -Matthew Henry
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“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.” -Jane Austen
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“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.” -Horace
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“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.” -Thomas Fuller
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“Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.” -Stephen Covey
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“When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.” -Tiger Woods
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“The business of America is business.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.” -Charles Dickens
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“The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.” -Andy Rooney
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“No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.” -Jim Valvano
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“Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” -Milan Kundera
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“The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.” -Ayrton Senna
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“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” -Peter Drucker
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“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.” -William Wordsworth
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“I don’t think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.” -Hillary Clinton
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“But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it’s virtually impossible. It’s very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.” -Donald Trump
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“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’” -Orison Swett Marden
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“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.” -T. S. Eliot
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“Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.” -Edmund Burke
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“My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” -Samuel Butler
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“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.” -Virginia Woolf
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“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” -Francis Bacon
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“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” -William James
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“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” -William S. Burroughs
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“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.” -Al…
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“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.” -Richard Bach
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“War is the business of barbarians.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.” -Carroll O’Connor
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“I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.” -Billy Graham
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“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.” -Pablo Picasso
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“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.” -H. P. Lovecraft
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“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.” -Dale Carnegie
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“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” -Andy Warhol
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“To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” -Aristotle Onassis
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“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.” -Mitt Romney
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“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.” -Warren Buffett
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“‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” -Thomas Paine
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“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“I don’t want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn’t improve what I’m trying to do. I figure, once I’ve done my job, it’s none of my business.” -Johnny Depp
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“It’s a business you go into because your an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.” -Andrew Jackson
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“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.” -Lucille Ball
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“Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.” -Henry Ford
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“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” -Walt Disney
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“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.” -Bill Gates
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“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.” -Walt Whitman
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“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.” -Malcolm Forbes
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“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work.” -Michael Jackson
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“In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.” -Steve Jobs
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“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!” -Thomas A. Edison
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