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Business Quotes


"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."


"I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business."


"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."


"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people."


"If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them."


"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things."


"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."


"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."


"Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying."


"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."


"The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business."


"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one."


"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live."


"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."


"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."


"Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business."


"You've got to know business before you go to show business."


"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."


"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."


"Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion."


"This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess."


"Your brand name and recognition is important. However, to create a lasting and remarkable impression, you must remember that you and your brand are as good as the value you bring to the marketplace."


"Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families."


"Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do."


"The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent."


"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."


"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."


"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."


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


"With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family."


"We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides."


"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."


"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States."


"Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career."


"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."


"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."


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


"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation."
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