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Business Quotes



"The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in."


"I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in."


"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"


"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."



"We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises."



"My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in."



"Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition."


"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."



"Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends."



"Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan."


"That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?"


"China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers."


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


"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."


"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."


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


"Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered."


"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit."


"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."


"Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants."
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