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"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."
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"I hate show business."
Joni Mitchell
"I hate show business."
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"The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard."
James Daly
"The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard."
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"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."
John Sergeant Wise
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."
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"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
Dick Cheney
"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
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"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores."
Barry Humphries
"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores."
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"When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it."
Daniel Day Lewis
"When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it."
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"If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up."
Brent Spiner
"If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up."
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"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
Catherine the Great
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
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"Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera."
David Ogilvy
"Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera."
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"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."
Kristin Hersh
"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."
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"I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe."
Devon Sawa
"I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe."
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"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."
Edmund Burke
"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."
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"Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science."
Arthur Machen
"Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science."
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"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."
Richard M. Nixon
"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."
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"One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses."
Julius Erving
"One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses."
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"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business."
Ville Valo
"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business."
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"Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all."
Michael Patrick Jann
"Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all."
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"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it."
Judd Nelson
"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it."
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"Good design is good business."
Thomas J. Watson
"Good design is good business."
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"What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career."
Paul Getty
"What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career."
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"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
Pete Seeger
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
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"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
Don Marquis
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
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"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
Jane Haddam
"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
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"But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company."
Kenneth Lay
"But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company."
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"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
James Cameron
"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
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"Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"
Richard Corliss
"Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"
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"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."
Francis Bacon
"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."
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"Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat."
Craig Bruce
"Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat."
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"I like business and personal life to be distinct."
Carter Burwell
"I like business and personal life to be distinct."
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"When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave."
Robbie Coltrane
"When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave."
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"If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin."
Richie Norton
"If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin."
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"Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft.When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one thing to do it right: how will my brand create buyers?If you're in business, that's the goal. Buyers. Branding done well creates both long term loyalty and timely purchases."
Richie Norton
"Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft.When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one thing to do it right: how will my brand create buyers?If you're in business, that's the goal. Buyers. Branding done well creates both long term loyalty and timely purchases."
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"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
Richard Branson
"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
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"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
Philip Johnson
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
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"If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business."
Sol Hurok
"If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business."
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"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
Samuel Johnson
"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
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"I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective."
Major Owens
"I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective."
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"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."
Erin Moran
"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."
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"Salespeople who think that it's all about price aren't required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation."
Chris Murray
"Salespeople who think that it's all about price aren't required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation."
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"From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect."
Pearl Zhu
"From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect."
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"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."
Matthew McGrory
"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."
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"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."
Alphonsus Liguori
"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."
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"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
Brit Hume
"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
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"Someone is closing deals today, regardless of the weather, economy, politics, or any other excuses. Get out there and add value to people's lives by helping them move forward toward their financial freedom, peace of mind, and legacy."
Farshad Asl
"Someone is closing deals today, regardless of the weather, economy, politics, or any other excuses. Get out there and add value to people's lives by helping them move forward toward their financial freedom, peace of mind, and legacy."
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"No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won."
Jim Valvano
"No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won."
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"Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity."
Pearl Zhu
"Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
Nick Lowe
"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"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."
Eraldo Banovac
"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."
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"Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!"
Robin Williams
"Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!"
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