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Business Quotes


"It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me."


"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"


"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."


"An exceptional brand culture has the effect of a charm, it entices and binds people."


"ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business."


"In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner."


"The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value."


"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business."


"Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression."


"There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster."


"A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy."


"I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea."


"I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine."


"Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued."


"A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely."


"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."


"I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done."


"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate."


"I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects."



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


"The digital philosophy is to live as "customers, when practicing IT management."


"We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business."


"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."


"For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed."


"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."


"Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada."


"Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business."


"When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can."


"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself."
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