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Business Quotes


"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."


"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him."


"And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly."


"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."


"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."


"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."


"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."


"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."


"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."


"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people."


"I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay."


"In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything."


"I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report."


"Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money."


"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product."


"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."


"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."



"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."


"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."


"In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks."


"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."


"In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions."


"Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world."


"I'm in this business because I despise honest labor."


"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do."


"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."


"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."


"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."


"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."


"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."


"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
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