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Business Quotes
"Well, at the risk of sounding a bit harsh, I think we can safely say that your recent successes could have just as easily been achieved by a mute monkey in a tiny business suit, holding up a written explanation of whatever it was the monkey was attempting to sell."
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"This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess."
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"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that."
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"But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business."
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"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
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"I can take more punishment than anyone in the business."
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"I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same."
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"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
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"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
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"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."
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"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive."
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"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."
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"Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon."
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"I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it."
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"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
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"I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances."
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"I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations."
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"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
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"To be in the right is often an expensive business."
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"Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do."
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"More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses."
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"My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative."
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"When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business."
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"A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain."
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"Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards."
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"It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
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"Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars."
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"Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along."
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"Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead."
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"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business."
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"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
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"I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business."
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"Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country."
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"We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery."
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