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Business Quotes


"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."


"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."


"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."


"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."


"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."


"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts."


"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."


"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."


"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."


"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them."


"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."


"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."


"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."


"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."


"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."



"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."


"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."


"It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game."


"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."


"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda."


"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."


"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."


"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."


"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."


"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."


"Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show."


"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."


"That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen."


"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."


"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."


"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom."


"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business."


"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."


"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate."



"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States."
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