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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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"I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side."
Billie Jean King
"I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side."
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"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you."
Nuno Bettencourt
"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you."
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"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."
Sharon Stone
"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."
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"When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique."
Melissa Bean
"When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique."
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"Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it."
Ernie Banks
"Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it."
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"It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power."
Rob Walton
"It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power."
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"Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings."
Paul Kantner
"Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings."
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"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
Michael LeBoeuf
"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
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"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business."
Eartha Kitt
"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business."
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"I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company."
Elon Musk
"I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company."
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"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business."
John Moody
"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business."
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"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
Linda Fiorentino
"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
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"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
Thorstein Veblen
"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
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"Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business."
Joseph P. Kennedy
"Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business."
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"When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them."
Herbert Prochnow
"When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them."
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"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
James Daly
"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
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"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."
Sally Field
"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."
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"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services."
Edward Sapir
"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services."
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"The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created."
Ellen Tauscher
"The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created."
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"There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too."
Peter Shilton
"There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too."
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"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
Arthur Wellesley
"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
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"No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do."
John Deacon
"No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do."
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"This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self."
Jimmy Rushing
"This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self."
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"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."
Tom Berenger
"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."
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"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context."
Carl Bernstein
"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context."
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"Entrepreneurship is where a noble cause meets the passion."
Farshad Asl
"Entrepreneurship is where a noble cause meets the passion."
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"The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control."
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"I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded."
Kristen Bell
"I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded."
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"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."
Gary Vaynerchuk
"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."
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"Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles."
Paul A. Volcker
"Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles."
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"I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment."
David Herbert Lawrence
"I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment."
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"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
Dennis Quaid
"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
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"Simply surviving in this business is a feat."
Lou Diamond Phillips
"Simply surviving in this business is a feat."
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"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
Bruce Barton
"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
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"It's a dismally lonely business, writing."
Toni Cade Bambara
"It's a dismally lonely business, writing."
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"In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing."
Patsy Kelly
"In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing."
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"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."
Mitch Hedberg
"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."
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"I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that."
Adam Rickitt
"I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that."
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"The Internet is the Viagra of big business."
Jack Welch
"The Internet is the Viagra of big business."
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"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles."
Zig Ziglar
"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles."
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"If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect."
Suzanne Vega
"If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect."
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"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."
Mitch McConnell
"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."
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"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
Steve Martin
"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
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"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."
Sydney Pollack
"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."
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"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company."
Henry Kravis
"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company."
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"I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business."
Garth Brooks
"I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business."
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"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."
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"In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to innovate will die."
Bernard Kelvin Clive
"In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to innovate will die."
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