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Business Quotes


"I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker."


"For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good."


"I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like."


"Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense."



"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."



"I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon."


"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown."


"I believe that one-product wonders come and go."



"If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new."


"Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst."


"My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined."


"America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world."


"I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do."



"And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in."



"It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit."


"Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches."


"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."


"Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend."


"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."


"Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."



"We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it."


"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."


"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business."


"I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business."


"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."


"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."


"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."


"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back."


"It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up."


"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."


"Christmas is over and Business is Business."


"Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business."
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