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Business Quotes


"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."


"And I really believe good journalism is good business."


"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business."


"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."


"Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are."


"The digital philosophy is to live as "customers, when practicing IT management."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."


"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."


"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."


"Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."


"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."


"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them."


"I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!"


"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."


"I'm in the business where you get the business all the time."


"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."


"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."


"The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business."


"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times."


"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business."


"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."


"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."



"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
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