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"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required."
Rutherford B. Hayes
"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required."
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"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."
Fiona Shaw
"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."
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"I am very proud to follow the rules of our company."
Ingvar Kamprad
"I am very proud to follow the rules of our company."
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"My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley."
Mark Zuckerberg
"My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley."
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"The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit."
John Buchanan Robinson
"The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit."
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"The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination."
Peter Chernin
"The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination."
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"I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson."
Chris Rock
"I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson."
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"I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it."
Blythe Danner
"I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it."
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"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
Franklin P. Adams
"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
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"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business."
Matthew Lesko
"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business."
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"I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it."
Luke Perry
"I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it."
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"I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck."
Ron Perlman
"I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck."
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"I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to."
Vince McMahon
"I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to."
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"I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business."
Juliana Hatfield
"I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business."
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"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
Izaak Walton
"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
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"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
Gary Vaynerchuk
"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
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"We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life."
Arthur Capper
"We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life."
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"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody."
Glenn Frey
"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody."
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"With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information."
Robin Hayes
"With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information."
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"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life."
John Cage
"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life."
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"Great companies don`t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something better than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you`ll be stuck with whoever`s left."
Simon Sinek
"Great companies don`t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something better than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you`ll be stuck with whoever`s left."
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"Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was."
Ed Smith
"Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was."
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"Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs."
Herbert Hoover
"Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs."
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"Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business."
John Hutton
"Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business."
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"I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs."
Morley Safer
"I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs."
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"We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything."
Don Bluth
"We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything."
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"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well."
Tommy Kirk
"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well."
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"'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business."
Richard Chamberlain
"'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business."
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"I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along."
Don Johnson
"I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along."
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"But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business."
Jamie Redknapp
"But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business."
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"Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business."
Scott Caan
"Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business."
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"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."
Robert Browning
"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."
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"So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business."
Alex Chiu
"So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business."
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"I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business."
Anthony Holden
"I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business."
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"The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe."
Simon Sinek
"The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe."
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"Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business."
Mike McCready
"Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business."
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"The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting."
Elisabeth Rohm
"The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting."
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"I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job."
Craig Benson
"I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job."
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"Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation."
Allyson Schwartz
"Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation."
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"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business."
Derek Bailey
"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business."
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"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
Gianni Agnelli
"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
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"I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social."
Kim Basinger
"I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social."
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"Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former."
Fredrik Bajer
"Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former."
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"I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker."
Joichi Ito
"I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker."
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"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
Margaret Chan
"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
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"Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down."
Francine Busby
"Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down."
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"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."
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"You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time."
Burt Ward
"You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time."
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"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."
Jake Lloyd
"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."
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"I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent."
Simon Cowell
"I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent."
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