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Business Quotes


"One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both."



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


"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."



"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."



"I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did."



"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."


"The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart."



"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."


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


"The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews."


"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."


"Great companies are built on great products."


"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."


"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899."



"Punctuality is the soul of business."


"I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"



"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."



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



"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."



"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."


"It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door."



"Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business."



"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."



"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."



"Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession."


"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."


"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."



"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction."



"Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves."


"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."



"I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism."


"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."


"The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination."


"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."


"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
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