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Business Quotes
"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business."
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"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
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"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."
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"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
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"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."
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"The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected."
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"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back."
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"We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business."
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"Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording."
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"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
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"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."
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"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."
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"I came from a real working-class show business family."
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"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
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"I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions."
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"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."
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"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."
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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."
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"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA."
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"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
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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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"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."
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"The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit."
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"We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us."
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"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture."
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"There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable."
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"In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet."
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"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."
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"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business."
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"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."
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"Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business."
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"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."
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