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Business Quotes


"All the things I love is what my business is all about."


"We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together."


"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."



"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States."


"Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business."


"I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage."


"As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business."


"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."


"I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business."


"Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth."



"I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me."


"Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically."


"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them."



"Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business."



"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live."


"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."


"Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat."


"I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better."


"Entrepreneurship is where a noble cause meets the passion."


"It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle."


"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."



"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."



"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."



"One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act."


"Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied."


"After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs."


"In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to innovate will die."


"When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this."


"It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship."


"The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more."



"I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States."


"The digital philosophy is to live as "customers, when practicing IT management."
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