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Business Quotes


"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."


"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier."


"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."


"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."



"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."


"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."



"I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over."


"I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently."


"If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business."


"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."


"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business."


"This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years."


"I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job."


"It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away."


"The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics."


"There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast."


"We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians."


"Business can be a source of progressive change."


"Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency."


"So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services."


"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."


"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."


"It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever."


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



"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."


"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."


"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."



"CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business."
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