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Business Quotes


"I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock."


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



"No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business."


"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them."


"I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business."


"Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company."


"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious."


"Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars."


"The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us."


"If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big."


"I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal."


"In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs."


"Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year."


"There can be no one best way of organizing a business."


"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."


"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to."


"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."


"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."


"It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change."


"The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business."


"We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law."


"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then."


"What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top."


"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business."


"Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals."


"First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes."


"The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business."


"Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown."



"If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business."


"Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development."


"In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry."


"Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable and as unbiased as possible."


"Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants."


"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."


"But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business."


"When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date."
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