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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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“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.” -Will Rogers
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“In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.” -Noam Chomsky
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“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” -Phyllis Diller
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“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.” -Erma Bombeck
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“I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that’s where I thrive.” -Will Smith
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“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” -Grenville Kleiser
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“Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.” -Plato
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“Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.” -Eminem
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“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.” -John Hancock
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“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn’t make you want to jump into that business.” -Charlie Sheen
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“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.” -Robert Frost
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“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.” -Tupac Shakur
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“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.” -Thomas Sowell
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“I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.” -Ron Paul
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“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.” -Bill Cosby
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“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.” -George Washington
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“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.” -Mark Twain
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“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” -Winston Churchill
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“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” -Helen Keller
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“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.” -Ronald Reagan
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“I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” -William Blake
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“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.” -Aristotle
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“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“If you have to forecast, forecast often.” -Edgar R. Fiedler
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“The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.” -Blaine Lee
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“Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.” -Evan Esar
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“People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’” -Sinclair Lewis
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“Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.” -Meg Whitman
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“We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.” -Steve Ballmer
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“Business can be a source of progressive change.” -Jerry Greenfield
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“Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network.” -Mitchell Kapor
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“Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.” -Richard Nelson Bolles
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“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.” -Igor Sikorsky
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“What’s the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.” -Paul A. Volcker
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“Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.” -Scott McNealy
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“The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.” -Jack Anderson
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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” -Ayn Rand
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“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.” -Tim Berners-Lee
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“Every few seconds it changes – up an eighth, down an eighth – it’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.” -Ted Turner
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“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.” -Stanislaw Lem
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“Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.” -Tom Allen
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“Word of mouth is the best medium of all.” -William Bernbach
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“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.” -Tacitus
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“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.” -Jane Fonda
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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” -Benjamin Jowett
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“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” -Paul Tournier
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“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.” -Norman Cousins
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“It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.” -Dale Dauten
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“You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.” -Steve Ross
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“I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.” -Edward Appleton
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“To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.” -Alvin Toffler
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“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.” -Andre Malraux
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“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” -Scott Adams
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“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” -Walter Lippmann
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“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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“More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.” -Rose Kennedy
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“I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.” -Debbi Fields
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“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.” -Don Marquis
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“Don’t simply retire from something have something to retire to.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman – like my father, or like me?” -Glenn Beck
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“One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.” -A. C. Benson
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“A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.” -Andre Maurois
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“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” -Howard Aiken
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“I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.” -Lord Acton
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“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” -Tom Brokaw
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“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“A group or an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his.” -Bobby Darin
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“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.” -Michael Korda
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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” -Edward Gibbon
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“When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder.” -James H. Boren
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“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.” -Isaac Asimov
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“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.” -Fred Allen
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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” -Max de Pree
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“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.” -Tom Peters
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“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.” -William Arthur Ward
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“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” -Charles Kettering
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“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” -Walter Scott
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“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” -Colin Powell
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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!” -Coco Chanel
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“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” -Robert Orben
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“Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.” -W. Clement Stone
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“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.” -John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” -Gary Ryan Blair
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“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.” -W. Edwards Deming
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“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” -Napoleon Hill
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“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” -Adam Smith
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“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.” -Henry R. Luce
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“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” -Sam Walton
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“The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.” -Confucius
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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” -Khalil Gibran
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“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“All lasting business is built on friendship.” -Alfred A. Montapert
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin
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“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” -Albert Einstein
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