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Business Quotes


"Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink."



"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."


"How a Brand is received is determined by how it's perceived."


"If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management."


"The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value."


"I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things."


"Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit in you? How helpful and creative are you in solving challenges? Have you attained communication and negotiation excellence status? Can you effectively market yourself and your service/product? How effective are you at selling your vision? The answers will determine how far your influence will go."


"Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can."


"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."


"A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely."


"Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in operating profit, and even bankruptcy."


"I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done."


"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."


"I think it is very important in this business to be an individual."


"The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this 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."


"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."


"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."


"I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market."


"The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute."


"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."


"American business has just forgotten the importance of selling."


"A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge."



"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."


"I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office."


"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense."


"I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am."


"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business."


"But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business."


"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation."


"We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service."


"IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968."


"I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image."
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