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Business Quotes
"But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron."
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"There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure."
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"With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity."
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"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit."
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"We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news."
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"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
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"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children."
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"A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in."
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"But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company."
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"An exceptional brand culture has the effect of a charm, it entices and binds people."
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"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."
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"Salespeople who think that it's all about price aren't required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation."
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"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."
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"We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides."
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"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move."
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"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way."
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"A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly."
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"I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?"
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"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset."
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"Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent."
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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."
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"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
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"The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up."
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"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."
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"Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business."
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"I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?"
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"We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today."
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"You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt."
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"A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output."
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"The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock."
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"The course of business shapes public opinion."
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"Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation."
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