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Business Quotes


"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."


"In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top."


"The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie."


"There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone."


"I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'"


"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."


"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."


"In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!"


"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."


"They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production."


"When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this."


"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."


"The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind."


"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."


"The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset."



"The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it."


"This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me."


"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."


"I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy."


"Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."


"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."


"The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt."


"If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula."


"I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer."


"I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business."


"The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute."


"I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me."


"Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations."


"It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up."


"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
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