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"I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us."
James Daly
"I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us."
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"If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business."
Joey Adams
"If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business."
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"I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people."
Derek Jacobi
"I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people."
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"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
E. F. Schumacher
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
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"In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait."
Les Brown
"In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait."
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"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."
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"All the things I love is what my business is all about."
Martha Stewart
"All the things I love is what my business is all about."
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"I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to."
Rihanna
"I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to."
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"It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles."
John Buchanan Robinson
"It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles."
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"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."
Andrew Carnegie
"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."
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"No man is a success in business unless he loves his work."
Florence Scovel Shinn
"No man is a success in business unless he loves his work."
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"While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught."
Pat Brown
"While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught."
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"TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product."
Simon Sinek
"TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product."
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"Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist."
Michael Bolton
"Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist."
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"A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next."
Amber Tamblyn
"A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next."
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"I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs."
Ed Rendell
"I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs."
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"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."
William Butler Yeats
"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."
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"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."
Ralph Chaplin
"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."
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"We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there."
Andrea Jung
"We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there."
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"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."
Walter Bagehot
"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."
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"My home has always been show business."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"My home has always been show business."
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"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
David Antin
"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
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"Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business."
Meg Whitman
"Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business."
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"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."
Jeffrey Skilling
"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."
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"My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business."
John Krasinski
"My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business."
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"I got through college realizing business was repugnant."
Bruce McCulloch
"I got through college realizing business was repugnant."
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"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."
Karl Marx
"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."
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"The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered."
Don Bluth
"The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered."
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"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."
Herbert Hoover
"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."
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"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."
John Wanamaker
"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."
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"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
Harold S. Geneen
"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
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"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
Bette Davis
"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
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"You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."
Charlize Theron
"You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."
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"We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business."
Marcy Kaptur
"We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business."
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"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing."
George Shearing
"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing."
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"In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime."
Doc Hastings
"In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime."
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"Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do'."
Simon Sinek
"Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do'."
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"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."
Tom Berenger
"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."
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"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained."
Jerome K. Jerome
"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained."
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"There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast."
Peter DeFazio
"There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast."
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"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."
Sanjay Kumar
"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."
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"In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business."
Carlos Alvarez
"In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business."
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"In this business you either sink or swim or you don't."
David Smith
"In this business you either sink or swim or you don't."
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"I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business."
Alex O'Loughlin
"I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business."
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"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base."
Gavin Newsom
"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base."
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"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."
Nat King Cole
"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."
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"With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity."
Tina Yothers
"With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity."
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"My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined."
Matthew Lesko
"My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined."
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"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."
Bruce Barton
"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."
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"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit."
John Lindsay
"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit."
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