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Business Quotes


"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."


"Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups."


"In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction."


"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."


"Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition."


"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."


"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving."


"Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term."


"We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative."


"We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business."


"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do."


"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it."


"And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business."


"And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well."


"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world."


"I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business."


"I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business."


"First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense."


"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown."



"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."


"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."


"In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again."


"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business."


"Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business."


"County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties."


"'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."



"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market."


"I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done."


"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."


"Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment."


"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop."


"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."


"Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst."


"So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean."


"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships."


"For the last five years I've been in the production business."


"We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians."


"Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year."
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