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Business Quotes


"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."


"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."



"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."



"It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms."



"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."


"Thought, not money, is the real business capital."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."


"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good."


"What other people think about me is not my business."



"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."



"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."


"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."


"Music and the music business are two different things."


"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."


"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."


"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."


"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."


"I like business and personal life to be distinct."


"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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