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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
E. Joseph Cossman
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
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"I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason."
Jasper Johns
"I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason."
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"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."
Alice Foote MacDougall
"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."
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"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."
Scott Bakula
"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."
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"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."
Bobby Flay
"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."
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"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.'"
Michael Bay
"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.'"
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"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."
Christopher Lasch
"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."
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"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like."
Sam Waterston
"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like."
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"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."
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"Are you setting business goals? Try this:Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.Step 3: Let your mind go to work.Thank me later."
Richie Norton
"Are you setting business goals? Try this:Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.Step 3: Let your mind go to work.Thank me later."
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"In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!"
Bernard Kelvin Clive
"In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!"
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"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."
Herb Ritts
"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."
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"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."
Mike Marsh
"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."
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"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different."
Erykah Badu
"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different."
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"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."
Damon Albarn
"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."
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"I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were."
Robert Englund
"I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were."
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"I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well."
Billie Jean King
"I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well."
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"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."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"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."
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"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."
Keenen Ivory Wayans
"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."
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"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."
Eddie Bernice Johnson
"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."
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"The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset."
Seth Godin
"The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset."
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"My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business."
Ron Moody
"My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business."
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"There's no business like show business."
Irving Berlin
"There's no business like show business."
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"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."
James E. Casey
"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."
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"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."
Debbie Gibson
"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."
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"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."
Bobby Darin
"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."
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"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
John Irving
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
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"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."
Rick Pitino
"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."
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"Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law."
Sue Kelly
"Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law."
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"Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."
Harry Crews
"Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."
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"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
John Searle
"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
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"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."
Scott Brown
"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."
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"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."
Pat Buchanan
"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."
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"Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."
Samuel Pepys
"Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."
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"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."
Richard Branson
"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."
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"Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don't see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time."
Erin Moran
"Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don't see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time."
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"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
Steven Soderbergh
"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
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"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."
Thomas J. Watson
"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."
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"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."
Ed Bradley
"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."
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"You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out."
Charlene Tilton
"You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out."
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"Our business is with life, not death."
George Wald
"Our business is with life, not death."
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"The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute."
Kevin Rollins
"The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute."
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"I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies."
Dennis Muren
"I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies."
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"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."
Frank Richard Stockton
"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."
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"I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act."
Kenny Baker
"I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act."
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"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."
Helena Bonham Carter
"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."
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"I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business."
Kevin Spacey
"I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business."
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"Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life."
Bob Geldof
"Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life."
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"It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up."
Nik Kershaw
"It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up."
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"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
Joseph Addison
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
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