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Business Quotes



"I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business."


"That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape."


"I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business."


"Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums."


"My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business."



"I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!"



"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."


"If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them."


"Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line."


"In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business."


"I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business."



"Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business."


"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general 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."


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


"You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead."


"The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs."



"If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business."


"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption."



"We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business."


"You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up."


"This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula."


"Your brand name and recognition is important. However, to create a lasting and remarkable impression, you must remember that you and your brand are as good as the value you bring to the marketplace."


"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."



"A man should never neglect his family for business."



"This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize."


"Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business."
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