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Business Quotes
"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did."
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"The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead."
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"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."
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"So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change."
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"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
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"Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving."
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"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."
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"Entrepreneurship is an art, you do it because you love it."
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"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations."
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"I'm in the business where you get the business all the time."
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"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
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"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."
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"I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business."
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"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."
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"Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual."
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"I am very proud to follow the rules of our company."
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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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"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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"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."
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"I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to."
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"I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business."
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"I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business."
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"That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work."
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"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
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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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"The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't."
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"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions."
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"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
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"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business."
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"Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company."
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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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"Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'"
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"I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz."
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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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"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise."
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"And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business."
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