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Business Quotes


"Running a business is a serious thing."


"When you put yourself in the customer's shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty."


"I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things."


"In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks."


"The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices."



"When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date."


"The way to write is well, and how is your own business."


"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."



"I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out."


"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business."



"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"


"My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap."


"That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business."


"I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business."


"A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition."


"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."



"Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business."



"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."


"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."


"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious."


"Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was."



"Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business."


"I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business."


"The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting."


"I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life."



"I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent."


"Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes."


"Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process."


"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."


"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."


"If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business."



"Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business."
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