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Business Quotes
"In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires."
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"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business."
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"Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business."
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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
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"I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star."
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"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on."
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"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times."
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"I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time."
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"In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing."
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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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"We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom."
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"My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley."
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"I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson."
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"It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand."
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"Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting."
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"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again."
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"Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in."
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"More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU."
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"Great companies don`t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something better than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you`ll be stuck with whoever`s left."
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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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"Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental."
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"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
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"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it."
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"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
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"I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way."
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"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
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"If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York."
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"I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill."
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