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Business Quotes


"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."


"Thanks for the information about what we call business."


"Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business."


"The United Nations has no business in our elections."


"Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in."


"But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day."


"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense."


"Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business."


"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn."


"More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU."


"Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign."


"Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government."


"All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business."


"When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business."


"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."


"Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest."


"Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business."


"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it."


"Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty."


"The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock."


"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."


"Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with."


"The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct."


"I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one."


"Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead."


"I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over."


"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."


"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."


"However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions."


"In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times."


"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."


"If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business."


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