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Business Quotes


"It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it."


"I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here."


"The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business."


"We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird."


"Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money."


"The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."


"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties."


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


"He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency."


"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."


"The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business."


"I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself."


"What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies."


"The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors."



"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising."


"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."


"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."


"This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances."


"I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company."
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