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Business Quotes


"So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass."


"The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business."


"We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business."


"If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless."


"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things."


"See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business."


"So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business."


"I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got."


"And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly."


"The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy."


"However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions."


"That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more."


"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."


"Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business."


"Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community."


"I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs."


"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them."


"You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."



"Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do'."


"I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher."


"We will probably always be in business together."


"Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year."


"The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business."


"I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else."



"The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery."


"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base."


"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."


"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."


"Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether."


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


"We're all somebody's prospect, we're all somebody's customer."



"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
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