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Business Quotes
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
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"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her."
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"Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth."
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"The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek."
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"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
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"It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game."
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"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."
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"Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion."
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"We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry."
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
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"In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
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"Social Media = Business. Period."
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"I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."
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"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."
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"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."
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"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."
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"Politics is show business for ugly people."
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"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
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"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
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"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."
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"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."
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"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
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"German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship."
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"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"
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"I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business."
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"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give."
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"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."
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"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."
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"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts."
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"Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers."
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"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
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"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll."
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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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