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Business Quotes


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


"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."


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


"It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles."


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


"TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product."


"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."



"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."


"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."


"My home has always been show business."


"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."


"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."


"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."



"I got through college realizing business was repugnant."


"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."


"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."


"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."


"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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'."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined."


"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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