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Business Quotes
"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'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions."
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"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."
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"Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business."
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"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."
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"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."
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"We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives."
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"Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them."
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"You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions."
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"The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too."
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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 don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all."
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"I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work."
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"I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business."
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"Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us."
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"And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth."
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"Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy."
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"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."
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"The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this."
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"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
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"We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast."
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"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress."
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"IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968."
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"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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"If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York."
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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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"Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company."
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"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers."
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"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity."
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"I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did."
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"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business."
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"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long."
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"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
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"Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business."
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"We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business."
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"These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly."
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