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Business Quotes
"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."
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"My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate."
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"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
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"Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's."
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"Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue."
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"When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians."
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"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own."
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"Business leaders shape public opinion."
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"Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion."
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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."
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"I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan."
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"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on."
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"I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business."
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"In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet."
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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."
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"Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture."
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"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent."
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"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."
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"All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business."
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"If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big."
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"Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty."
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"The business always gets in the way of basketball."
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"The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct."
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"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime."
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"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to."
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"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers."
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"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it."
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"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."
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"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
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"The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle."
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"TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract."
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"When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest."
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"I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it."
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"If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect."
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"We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there."
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"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us."
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"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."
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"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on."
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