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"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."
Donald Trump
"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."
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"The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business's strategic planning."
Pearl Zhu
"The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business's strategic planning."
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"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
Christiane Amanpour
"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
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"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business."
Al Roker
"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business."
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"If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here."
Ben E. King
"If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here."
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"Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee."
Michael Beschloss
"Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee."
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"I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life."
David Eddings
"I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life."
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"I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business."
Mike Curb
"I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business."
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"Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are."
Ziad K. Abdelnour
"Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are."
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"The digital philosophy is to live as "customers, when practicing IT management."
Pearl Zhu
"The digital philosophy is to live as "customers, when practicing IT management."
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"So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough."
Amanda Bynes
"So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough."
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"My business is hurting people."
Sugar Ray Robinson
"My business is hurting people."
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"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."
Jamie Lee Curtis
"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."
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"That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures."
Robert Stack
"That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures."
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"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors."
Ewan McGregor
"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors."
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"The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley."
Sue Kelly
"The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley."
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"Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared."
January Jones
"Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared."
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"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."
Eraldo Banovac
"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."
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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
"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."
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"I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern."
Brent Spiner
"I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern."
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"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."
Michael Porter
"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."
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"Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere."
Arthur E. Waite
"Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere."
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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Jay Leno
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
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"The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard."
Andrew Eldritch
"The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard."
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"Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law."
Sue Kelly
"Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law."
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"The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did."
James Daly
"The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did."
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"I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism."
Peter Hook
"I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism."
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"Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."
Harry Crews
"Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."
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"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business."
Anne Hutchinson
"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business."
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"My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education."
John Knowles
"My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education."
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"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
John Searle
"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
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"The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt."
Scott Brown
"The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt."
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"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business."
Judy Biggert
"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business."
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"If I was on the cover of Artforum and my photos were selling for lots of money. If I could be doing that I wouldn't be working for porn mags. But I got to make a living. I shoot for them only occasionally now because that business isn't what it used to be."
Richard Kern
"If I was on the cover of Artforum and my photos were selling for lots of money. If I could be doing that I wouldn't be working for porn mags. But I got to make a living. I shoot for them only occasionally now because that business isn't what it used to be."
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"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them."
Marcel Dionne
"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them."
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"I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!"
Mark Russell
"I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!"
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"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."
Hank Ketcham
"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."
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"I'm in the business where you get the business all the time."
Cyndi Lauper
"I'm in the business where you get the business all the time."
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"The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not."
Marc Almond
"The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not."
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"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can."
Blair Underwood
"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can."
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"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
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"The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business."
Pauline Hanson
"The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business."
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"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times."
Christie Hefner
"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times."
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"There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost."
James Collins
"There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost."
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"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business."
Carlos Alazraqui
"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business."
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"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
Ethel Waters
"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
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"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
John Frankenheimer
"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
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"At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world."
Celine Dion
"At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world."
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"The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks."
Bam Margera
"The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks."
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"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
Aaron Burr
"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
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