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Business Quotes
"As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles."
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"There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today."
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"Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus."
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"Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot."
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"So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change."
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"The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years."
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"I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business."
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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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"My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about."
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"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style."
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"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
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"In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper."
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"Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism."
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"There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable."
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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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"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession."
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"If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that."
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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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"Well, I happen to believe all business is female business."
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"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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"The real business of life is trying to understand each other."
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"The course of business shapes public opinion."
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"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it."
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"It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business."
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"I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man."
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"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties."
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"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business."
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"I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known."
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"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."
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"My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it."
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"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."
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"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."
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"TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract."
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"I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it."
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"This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it."
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"Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession."
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"He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad."
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"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
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