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Business Quotes


"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."


"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."


"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores."


"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."


"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."


"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."


"I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe."


"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."


"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."


"What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career."


"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."


"But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company."


"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."


"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."


"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."


"I like business and personal life to be distinct."


"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."


"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."


"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."


"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."


"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."


"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."


"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."



"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."


"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."


"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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