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"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
Calvin Coolidge
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
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"The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind."
Keenen Ivory Wayans
"The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind."
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"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views."
Greg Ginn
"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views."
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"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."
Bernie Ebbers
"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."
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"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things."
Minnie Pearl
"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things."
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"I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress."
Amber Tamblyn
"I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress."
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"We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more."
Fred Frith
"We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more."
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"So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different."
Jackie Cooper
"So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different."
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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
"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."
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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
"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."
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"The music business doesn't interest me anymore."
Lou Reed
"The music business doesn't interest me anymore."
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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
"The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not."
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"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."
Judi Dench
"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."
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"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda."
Anita Roddick
"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda."
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"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."
Harvey S. Firestone
"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."
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"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
Howard Nemerov
"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
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"No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed."
James Woods
"No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed."
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"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent."
Lee Majors
"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent."
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"It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms."
Robert Reich
"It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms."
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"A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society."
Simon Sinek
"A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society."
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"The client is not always right."
Enzo Ferrari
"The client is not always right."
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"My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that."
Robin Yount
"My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that."
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"Thought, not money, is the real business capital."
Harvey S. Firestone
"Thought, not money, is the real business capital."
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"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
E. F. Schumacher
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
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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
"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."
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"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."
Esther Dyson
"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."
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"My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside."
Aaron Klug
"My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside."
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"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."
Walter Bagehot
"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."
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"Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story."
Mary Hart
"Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story."
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"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."
Marc Maron
"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."
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"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good."
Anita Roddick
"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good."
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"What other people think about me is not my business."
Michael J. Fox
"What other people think about me is not my business."
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"So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me."
Kerry King
"So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me."
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"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
Walt Disney
"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
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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
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
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"If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything."
Michael Schenker
"If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything."
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"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."
Nat King Cole
"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."
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"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."
Susan Lucci
"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."
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"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."
John Hurt
"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."
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"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."
John Sergeant Wise
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."
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"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
Linda Fiorentino
"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
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"At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia."
Amar Bose
"At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia."
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"Music and the music business are two different things."
Erykah Badu
"Music and the music business are two different things."
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"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
James Daly
"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
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"One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses."
Julius Erving
"One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses."
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"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."
Meryl Streep
"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."
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"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it."
Hillary Clinton
"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it."
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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
"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."
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"I like business and personal life to be distinct."
Carter Burwell
"I like business and personal life to be distinct."
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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
"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."
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