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Business Quotes
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
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"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."
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"Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit in you? How helpful and creative are you in solving challenges? Have you attained communication and negotiation excellence status? Can you effectively market yourself and your service/product? How effective are you at selling your vision? The answers will determine how far your influence will go."
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"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
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"A man should never neglect his family for business."
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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."
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"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
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"I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism."
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"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."
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"I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business."
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"Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth."
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"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
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"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
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"Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving."
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"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."
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"I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out."
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"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
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"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
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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."
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"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"
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"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."
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"I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time."
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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
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"You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term."
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"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."
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"The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders."
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"A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge."
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"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
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"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
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"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."
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"No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company."
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"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."
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"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."
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"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry."
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"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him."
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