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Business Quotes
"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
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"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
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"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."
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"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."
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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means."
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"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."
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"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."
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"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
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"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."
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"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
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"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
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"Confidence is everything in this business."
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"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
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"When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant."
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"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."
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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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"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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"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."
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"If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business."
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
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"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
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"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."
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"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears."
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"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."
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"That's what show business is, sincere insincerity."
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"If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble."
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"A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know."
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"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
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