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John Wanamaker

"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."

John Wanamaker, American Businessman
Business, People, Talk
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"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."

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Amber Hurdle

"Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity."

Pearl Zhu, American Author
Business, Strategy, Progress, Simplicity, Planning
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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, American Actor
Business, Politics, People, End
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"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."

Tom Berenger, American Actor
Business, Right, Television, Years
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Amber Hurdle

"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."

Clara Barton, American Public Servant
Business,
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"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

John Morley, British Statesman
Business, Learning, Man
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Amber Hurdle

"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate."

Bill Terry, American Athlete
Business,
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"I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know."

Dick Van Dyke, American Actor
Business, Life, Months, Old
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Amber Hurdle

"In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages."

Gil Kane, American Artist
Business, Words
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Amber Hurdle

"DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it."

Gil Kane, American Artist
Business, Company
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"It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables."

Gil Kane, American Artist
Business, Infinity

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